Psalms 88:4

4 disposui testamentum electis meis iuravi David servo meo

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 misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo in generationem et generationem adnuntiabo veritatem tuam in ore meo
3 quoniam dixisti in aeternum misericordia aedificabitur in caelis praeparabitur veritas tua *in eis;
4 disposui testamentum electis meis iuravi David servo meo
5 usque in aeternum praeparabo semen tuum et aedificabo in generationem et generationem sedem tuam diapsalma
6 confitebuntur caeli mirabilia tua Domine etenim veritatem tuam in ecclesia sanctorum
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