Psalm 88:5-7

They have left me among the dead,

    and I lie like a corpse in a grave.

I am forgotten,

    cut off from your care.

You have thrown me into the lowest pit,

    into the darkest depths.

Your anger weighs me down;

    with wave after wave you have engulfed me.

They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse in a grave. I am forgotten, cut off from your care.

Job 17:1 

"My spirit is crushed,

    and my life is nearly snuffed out.

    The grave is ready to receive me."  (see all chapter 17)

Psalm 31:22  

In panic I cried out,

    "I am cut off from the LORD!"

But you heard my cry for mercy

    and answered my call for help.  (see all Psalm 31)

Isaiah 38:12  

"My life has been blown away

    like a shepherd's tent in a storm.

It has been cut short,

    as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.

    Suddenly, my life was over."  (see all chapter 38)

Isaiah 53:8  

Unjustly condemned,

    he was led away.

No one cared that he died without descendants,

    that his life was cut short in midstream.

But he was struck down

    for the rebellion of my people.  (see all chapter 53)

You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths. 

Numbers 16:33  So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.  (see all chapter 16)

Psalm 143:3  

My enemy has chased me.

    He has knocked me to the ground

    and forces me to live in darkness like those in the grave.  (see all Psalm 143)

Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. 

Psalm 42:7  

I hear the tumult of the raging seas

    as  your waves and surging tides sweep over me.  (see all Psalm 42)

Genesis 1:2  The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.  (see all chapter 1)

Genesis 7:11  When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventh day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.  (see chapters 6-8)

Psalm 69:2  

Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire;

    I cant' find a foothold.

I am in deep water,

    and the floods overwhelm me.  (see all Psalm 69)

Jonah 2:3  

You threw me into the ocean depths,

    and I sank down to the heart of the sea.

The mighty waters engulfed me;

    I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.  (see all chapter 2)

(parentheses are mine)

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