Psalms 88:4

4 (87-5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

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 (87-3) Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
3 (87-4) For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
4 (87-5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
5 (87-6) Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 (87-7) They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
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