Psalms 88:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 88:6

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

KJV

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ASV

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

YLT

Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

WEB

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

DBT

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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17 verses on the floor

Psalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms 69:15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms 143:3
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.

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), sinking, and seeing no way open of escape, brought to the last extremity, and ready to give up all for gone." Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, such dismal apprehensions may they have concerning their afflictions, and such dark conclusions may they sometimes be ready to make concerning the issue of them, through the power of melancholy and the weakness of faith.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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