Psalms 88:6
“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.”
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”
“For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.”
“I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.”
“Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.”
“Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.”