Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care. New Living Translation They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse in a grave. I am forgotten, cut off from your care. English Standard Version like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. Berean Standard Bible I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. King James Bible 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. New King James Version Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand. New American Standard Bible Abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand. NASB 1995 Forsaken among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand. NASB 1977 Forsaken among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom Thou dost remember no more, And they are cut off from Thy hand. Legacy Standard Bible Released among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand. Amplified Bible Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand. Christian Standard Bible abandoned among the dead. I am like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, and who are cut off from your care. Holman Christian Standard Bible abandoned among the dead. I am like the slain lying in the grave, whom You no longer remember, and who are cut off from Your care. American Standard Version Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. Aramaic Bible in Plain English A free man among the dead, like the slain sleeping in the graves, those whom you remember no more and they were destroyed by your hands! Brenton Septuagint Translation free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand. Contemporary English Version I am no better off than those in the grave, those you have forgotten and no longer help. Douay-Rheims Bible free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand. English Revised Version Cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy hand. GOD'S WORD® Translation abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves, like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your power. Good News Translation I am abandoned among the dead; I am like the slain lying in their graves, those you have forgotten completely, who are beyond your help. International Standard Version released to remain with the dead, lying in a grave like a corpse, remembered no longer, and cut off from your power. JPS Tanakh 1917 Set apart among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom Thou rememberest no more; And they are cut off from Thy hand. Literal Standard Version Among the dead—free, | As pierced ones lying in the grave, | Whom You have not remembered anymore, | Indeed, they have been cut off by Your hand. Majority Standard Bible I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. New American Bible My couch is among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave. You remember them no more; they are cut off from your influence. NET Bible adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power. New Revised Standard Version like those forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. New Heart English Bible set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. Young's Literal Translation Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Day and Night I Cry Out Before You…4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. 5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. 6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.… Cross References Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel. Psalm 31:22 In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from Your sight!" But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help. Isaiah 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people. Lamentations 3:6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.' Treasury of Scripture Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand. free Isaiah 14:9-12 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations… Isaiah 38:10-12 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years… Ezekiel 32:18-32 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit… whom Psalm 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever: Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. cut Psalm 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Psalm 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! from thy hand. Jump to Previous Apart Care Cast Cut Dead Forsaken Free Grave Hand Lie Ones Pierced Prostrate Remember Remembered Rememberest Slain Soul Thought UnderworldJump to Next Apart Care Cast Cut Dead Forsaken Free Grave Hand Lie Ones Pierced Prostrate Remember Remembered Rememberest Slain Soul Thought UnderworldPsalm 88 1. A prayer containing a grievous complaint.(5) Free among the dead . . .--So the old versions without exception, taking chaphshi as an adjective, as in Job 3:19 (where used of an emancipated slave); 1Samuel 17:25 (free from public burdens). So of the separate house for lepers, who were cut off from society (2Kings 15:5). Hence some refer the psalm to Uzziah. The Targum explains, "freed from legal duties." But plainly the meaning is here exactly that of defunctus. The verse offers an instance of introverted parallelism, and this clause answers to "they are cut off from thy hand." Gesenius, however, makes the Hebrew word a noun (comp. Ezekiel 27:20), and renders, among the dead is my couch. Whom thou.--The dead are "clean forgotten, out of mind" even to God. From thy hand--i.e., from the guiding, helping hand which, though stretched out for living men, does not reach to the grave. Verse 5. - Free among the dead; or, "east out among the dead." Placed with corpses, as one that needs burial. Like the slain that lie in the grave. Like those who are thrown into a pit dug on a battlefield, among whom there are often some who have not breathed their last (see the Prayerbook Version). Whom thou rememberest no more. We have already beard the complaint that in death there is no remembrance of God on the part of man (Psalm 6:5); now we have the converse statement, that neither is there then any remembrance of man on the part of God. The psalmist speaks, not absolute truth, but the belief of his day - a belief which vanished when life and immortality were brought to light by the gospel. And they are out off from thy hand; i.e. severed from thee, shut up in a place where thou dwell eat not (see Job 10:21, 22).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I am forsakenחָ֫פְשִׁ֥י (ḥā·p̄ə·šî) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2670: Exempt among the dead, בַּמֵּתִ֗ים (bam·mê·ṯîm) Preposition-b, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 4191: To die, to kill like כְּמ֤וֹ (kə·mōw) Preposition Strong's 3644: Like, as, when the slain חֲלָלִ֨ים ׀ (ḥă·lā·lîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2491: Pierced, polluted who lie שֹׁ֥כְבֵי (šō·ḵə·ḇê) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct Strong's 7901: To lie down in the grave, קֶ֗בֶר (qe·ḇer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher whom אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that You לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no remember זְכַרְתָּ֣ם (zə·ḵar·tām) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male no more, ע֑וֹד (‘ō·wḏ) Adverb Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more who וְ֝הֵ֗מָּה (wə·hêm·māh) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They are cut off נִגְזָֽרוּ׃ (niḡ·zā·rū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1504: To cut down, off, to destroy, divide, exclude, decide from Your care. מִיָּדְךָ֥ (mî·yā·ḏə·ḵā) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3027: A hand Links Psalm 88:5 NIVPsalm 88:5 NLT Psalm 88:5 ESV Psalm 88:5 NASB Psalm 88:5 KJV Psalm 88:5 BibleApps.com Psalm 88:5 Biblia Paralela Psalm 88:5 Chinese Bible Psalm 88:5 French Bible Psalm 88:5 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 88:5 Set apart among the dead like (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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