Psa 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put {him} to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see {his} seed, he shall prolong {his} days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. {thou...: or, his soul shall make an offering}
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. {hear...: Heb. make haste to hear me}
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}
Be not far from me; for trouble {is} near; for {there is} none to help. {none...: Heb. not a helper}
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. {sorrows: or, cords}
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are} my delights. {taken...: Heb. found me}
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.