Psalms 88:4 Cross References - ISV

⁴ I am considered as one of those descending into the Pit, like a mighty man without strength,

¹ Job Laments and Prepares for Death “My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it’s the grave for me!

¹ Davidic
A Prayer for Help To you, LORD, I cry out! My Rock, do not refuse to answer me. If you remain silent, I will become like those who descend into the Pit.

⁹ “What profit is there in my death if I go down to the Pit? Can dust worship you? Can it proclaim your faithfulness?”

¹² Like a dead man, I am forgotten in their thoughts— like broken pottery.

²² Indeed, I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ²³ I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust. ²⁴ My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.

⁷ Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,

¹⁷ Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

²⁰ I’ll make sure that you go straight to the Pit, into the lowest part of the earth, where you’ll be with people who lived in ancient times. You’ll keep company there with the dead, who have gone into the Pit. As a result, your city won’t be inhabited. Meanwhile, I will display my glory in the land of the living.

⁶ I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth’s prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!

⁶ For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.

⁹ In fact, we felt that we had received a death sentence so we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

⁴ Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God’s power. We are weak with him, but by God’s power we will live for you.