Psalms 88:4

4 I'm written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case.

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 Put me on your salvation agenda; take notes on the trouble I'm in.
3 I've had my fill of trouble; I'm camped on the edge of hell.
4 I'm written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case.
5 Abandoned as already dead, one more body in a stack of corpses, And not so much as a gravestone - I'm a black hole in oblivion.
6 You've dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss.
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