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Psalms 88:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" 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 88:5

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3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

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.

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

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

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From This Chapter

Psalms 88:1

"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

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