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Psalms 88:4 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: "
Psalms 88:4
Verse in Context
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Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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Psalms 88:1
"[[A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.]] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night"
Psalms 88:2
"Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;"
Psalms 88:3
"For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
Psalms 88:5
"Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand."
Psalms 88:6
"Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."
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