Psalms 88:4

4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.

Psalms 88:4 in Other Translations

4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

4 I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.

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

4 I am counted among those going down 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 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.

3 I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.

4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.

5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.

6 You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 31:12; Psalms 28:1
• 2. Psalms 18:1