Psalm 88

Psalms · Chapter 88

Psalms 88:6

1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
you have put meשַׁ֭תַּנִיSHA-ta-niH7896H
to set: make

שִׁית (shit) : make/establish 1) to put, set 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put, lay (hand upon) 1a2) to set, station, appoint, fix, set mind to 1a3) to constitute, make (one something), make like, perform 1a4) to take one's stand 1a5) to lay waste 1b) (Hophal) to be imposed, be set upon

in a pit ofבְּב֣וֹרbe-VORH0953A
pit

בּוֹר (bor) pit, well, cistern, dungeon, pit of the grave

lowest partsתַּחְתִּיּ֑וֹתtach-ti-YOTH8482
lower

תַּחְתִּי (tach.ti) 1) low, lower, lowest 1a) lowest (as adj) 1b) the lower parts (subst)

in [the] dark placesבְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗יםbe-ma-cha-sha-KIMH4285
darkness

חֲשׁוֹךְ (cha.shokh) darkness Aramaic of mach.shakh (מַחְשָׁךְ "darkness" H4285)

in [the] depthsבִּמְצֹלֽוֹת׃bim-tzo-LOTH4688
depth

מְצוֹלָה (me.tso.lah) depth, the deep, the deep sea

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.