Psalm 88:3

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

Cross-reference

Psalm 88:15 Parallel

In Psalm 88:15, the psalmist describes being afflicted and close to death from youth — reinforcing the same theme of lifelong suffering.

Psalm 88:14 Parallel

In Psalm 88:14, the psalmist continues lamenting that God has cast him off — a direct continuation of the same complaint.

In Psalm 69:17-21, the psalmist cries for God not to hide his face and for deliverance — a parallel of distress and plea.

Psalm 143:4 Parallel

In Psalm 143:4, the psalmist's spirit faints and heart is appalled — echoing the same inner turmoil and sense of being overwhelmed.

Psalm 143:3 Parallel

In Psalm 143:3, the psalmist says his enemy has crushed him to the ground and made him sit in darkness — a parallel of being brought low to death's door.

Psalm 77:2 Parallel

In Psalm 77:2, the psalmist seeks the Lord in trouble and refuses comfort — a parallel experience of unrelieved distress.

In Psalm 22:11-21, the sufferer also feels surrounded by troubles and near death — a strong parallel of desperate lament.

Psalm 55:4 Parallel

In Psalm 55:4, the terrors of death falling upon the speaker closely parallels the life drawing near to Sheol.

Psalm 18:5 Parallel

In Psalm 18:5, the cords of Sheol entangling the speaker is a parallel image of being overtaken by death.

In Psalm 107:18, the afflicted draw near to the gates of death — similar to the psalmist's life drawing near to Sheol, though with a different outcome.

Psalm 31:9 Related theme

In Psalm 31:9, the psalmist's distress and wasted soul echoes the trouble-filled soul here, though without explicit Sheol reference.

Psalm 77:3 Related theme

In Psalm 77:3, the fainting spirit during meditation parallels the soul full of troubles, but context differs (remembering God).

In Psalm 119:143, trouble and anguish finding the psalmist parallels the soul full of troubles, though with a positive turn to delight in commandments.

Job 6:2–4 Parallel

In Job 6:2-4, Job describes his calamity as heavier than sand and God's arrows poisoning him — mirroring the psalmist's feeling of being crushed by troubles.

In Lamentations 3:15-19, the speaker is filled with bitterness and has forgotten happiness — closely matching the psalmist's soul full of troubles and hopelessness.

In Matthew 26:38, Jesus says his soul is sorrowful to death — directly echoing the psalmist's life drawing near to Sheol.

Mark 14:34 Allusion

In Mark 14:34, Jesus declares his soul sorrowful to death — a direct parallel to the psalmist's near-death anguish.

Job 33:22 Parallel

In Job 33:22, the same imagery of the soul nearing the pit/death echoes this verse's description of life approaching Sheol.

Job 17:1 Parallel

In Job 17:1, Job's broken spirit and readiness for the grave directly parallels the psalmist's life nearing Sheol.

In Genesis 44:29, Jacob's fear of descending to Sheol in grief mirrors the psalmist's sense of life drawing near Sheol.

John 12:27 Allusion

In John 12:27, Jesus uses the same 'my soul is troubled' phrase, facing his hour of death.

Isaiah 53:3 Parallel

In Isaiah 53:3, the suffering servant is a man of sorrows acquainted with grief — a parallel to the psalmist's soul full of troubles and near death.

In Isaiah 53:10, the servant is crushed by God's will — echoing the psalmist's experience of life drawing near to Sheol under divine affliction.

In Isaiah 53:11, the servant's soul anguish leads to satisfaction — contrasting with the psalmist's unresolved distress and near-death despair.

In Ezekiel 26:20, the judgment of being brought down to the pit parallels the descent to Sheol, but applied to a city rather than an individual.