Psalms 88:4

4 I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.

Psalms 88:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit
With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially put to death, and are not laid in a common grave, but put into a pit together: thus Christ was reckoned and accounted of by the Jews; the sanhedrim counted him worthy of death; and the common people cried out Crucify him; and they did crucify him between two malefactors; and so he was numbered or counted with transgressors, and as one of them, ( Isaiah 53:3 Isaiah 53:4 Isaiah 53:12 ) .

I am as a man that hath no strength;
for his "strength" was "dried up like a potsherd", ( Psalms 22:15 ) , though he was the mighty God, and, as man, was made strong by the Lord for himself.

Psalms 88:4 In-Context

2 Hear my prayer; listen to my cry for help!
3 So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.
4 I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.
5 I am abandoned among the dead; I am like the slain lying in their graves, those you have forgotten completely, who are beyond your help.
6 You have thrown me into the depths of the tomb, into the darkest and deepest pit.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. all my strength is gone; [or] there is no help for me.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.