Psalm 88:3

A Cry Of Desperation

² Let my prayer come before You;
Incline Your ear to my cry!
³ For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.
⁴ I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

Full of Trouble

Hades

Sheol

Psalm 107:18

Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.

Job 6:2-4

“Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

Job 33:22

“Then his soul draws near to the pit,
And his life to those who bring death.

Psalm 22:11-21

Be not far from me, for trouble is near;
For there is none to help.

Psalm 69:17-21

And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-15

O Lord, why do You reject my soul?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 107:26

They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul melted away in their misery.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has persecuted my soul;
He has crushed my life to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Isaiah 53:10-11

But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

Lamentations 3:15-19

He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

Matthew 26:37-39

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

Mark 14:33-34

And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.