"For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
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.
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
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.
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.
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.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
\88:2\Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.