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Psa 88:5 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Free		Isa 14:9-12; Isa 38:10-12; Eze 32:18-32
whom		Psa 136:23; Gen 8:1; Gen 19:29
cut		Psa 88:16; Psa 31:22; Job 6:9; Job 11:10; Isa 53:8
from thy hand		or, by thy hand.

Correlating Passages

Free

	Isa 14:9	Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
	Isa 14:10	All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
	Isa 14:11	Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
	Isa 14:12	How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
	Isa 38:10	I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
	Isa 38:11	I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
	Isa 38:12	Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
	Eze 32:18	Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
	Eze 32:19	Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
	Eze 32:20	They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
	Eze 32:21	The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
	Eze 32:22	Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
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whom

	Psa 136:23	Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
	Gen 8:1	And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
	Gen 19:29	And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

cut

	Psa 88:16	Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
	Psa 31:22	For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
	Job 6:9	Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
	Job 11:10	If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
	Isa 53:8	He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 88:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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