Psalms 88:4

2 Let my prayer come before You;
¹Incline Your ear to my cry.

3 For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life ^adraws near to the grave.

4 I am counted with those who ^ago down to the pit;
^bI am like a man who has no strength,

5 ¹Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

6 You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In darkness, in the depths.

7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all ^aYour waves. Selah

8 ^aYou have¹ put away my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them;
^bI am shut up, and I cannot get out;

9 My eye wastes away because of affliction.
^aLord, I have called daily upon You;
I have stretched out my hands to You.

10 Will You work wonders for the dead?
Shall¹ the dead arise and praise You? Selah

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Psalms 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit - I am so near to death that I may be reckoned already as among the dead. It is so manifest to others that I must die - that my disease is mortal - that they already speak of me as dead. The word "pit" here means the grave - the same as Sheol in the previous verse. It means properly

(1) a pit,

(2) a cistern, Genesis 37:20,

(3) a prison or dungeon, Isaiah 24:22,

(4) the grave, Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:4; Isaiah 38:18.

I am as a man that hath no strength - Who has no power to resist disease, no vigor of constitution remaining; who must die.

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