Psalms 88:4

4 They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.

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 Receive my prayer, and listen to my cry.

3 My life is full of troubles, and I am nearly dead.

4 They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.

5 I have been left as dead, like a body lying in a grave whom you don't remember anymore, cut off from your care.

6 You have brought me close to death; I am almost in the dark place of the dead.