Psalms 88:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.”
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BSBPD
“You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 88:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
- Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
- Lamentations 3:55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
- Jonah 2:4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
- John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
- Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
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