Psalms 88:4

I am counted with those who go down to the pit; without strength am I.

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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

3For I am sated with sorrow, my life draws near to Sheol.

5My home is among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more cut off as they are from your hand.

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Cross References

Psalms 28:1Unto you, O Lord, do I cry; my rock, be not deaf to me: lest, through holding your peace, I become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalms 31:12I am clean forgotten like the dead, am become like a ruined vessel.

Psalms 143:7Answer me soon, Lord, because my spirit is spent. Hide not your face from me, else become I like those who go down to the pit.

Romans 5:6seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God’s good time, died on behalf of the godless.

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 →

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