Psalms 88:4

4 I am reckoned with [those] descending to [the] pit. I am like a man without 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 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

3 For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.

4 I am reckoned with [those] descending to [the] pit. I am like a man without strength,

5 set free among the dead, like [the] slain lying in [the] grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

6 You have set me in [the] pit below, in dark places, in [the] depths.

Footnotes

• [a]. The Hebrew suggests a strong, vigorous man
• [b]. Or "without help"