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[a]For my soul is filled with troubles;(A)
    my life draws near to Sheol.

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Footnotes

  1. 88:4–8 In imagination the psalmist already experiences the alienation of Sheol.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit;(A)
    I am like one without strength.(B)

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17 If the Lord were not my help,
    I would long have been silent in the grave.(A)

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17 Unless the Lord had given me help,(A)
    I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.(B)

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