Psalm 6:6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Footnotes
- 6:6 A motive for God to preserve the psalmist from death: in the shadowy world of the dead no one offers you praise. Sheol is the biblical term for the underworld where the insubstantial souls of dead human beings dwelt. It was similar to the Hades of Greek and Latin literature. In the second century B.C., biblical books begin to speak positively of life with God after death (Dn 12:1–3; Wis 3).
Psalm 6:6
New International Version
Psalm 6:6
King James Version
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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Psalm 88:4-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 [a]For my soul is filled with troubles;(A)
my life draws near to Sheol.
5 I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a warrior without strength.
6 My couch is among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave.
You remember them no more;
they are cut off from your influence.
7 You plunge me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
Footnotes
- 88:4–8 In imagination the psalmist already experiences the alienation of Sheol.
Psalm 88:4-7
New International Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 88:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.
Psalm 88:4-7
King James Version
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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Psalm 115:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 115:17
New International Version
17 It is not the dead(A) who praise the Lord,
those who go down to the place of silence;
Psalm 115:17
King James Version
17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
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Isaiah 38:18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 [a]For it is not Sheol that gives you thanks,
nor death that praises you;
Neither do those who go down into the pit
await your kindness.(A)
Isaiah 38:18
New International Version
Isaiah 38:18
King James Version
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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