Psalms 88:4
(88-5) I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
In Context
3(88-4) For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I call; my Rock, be not Thou deaf unto me; lest, if Thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 31:12(31-13) I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a useless vessel.
Psalms 143:7Answer me speedily, O LORD, my spirit faileth; hide not Thy face from me; lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Ezekiel 26:20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, like the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →