Psalms 88:6

What does Psalms 88:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 88:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

Context

v.5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

v.6This passage

v.7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jude 1:6

    And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  • Lamentations 3:55

    I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

  • Psalms 40:2

    He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

  • Psalms 143:3

    For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Lamentations 3:2

    He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Jude 1:13

    wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

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