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Psalms 88:4
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I am counted among those going down to the Pit.I am like a man without strength,
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.
They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave); I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
I am counted among those who go down to the pit;I am like a man without strength,
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
I am as good as dead and completely helpless.
For I am oversupplied with troubles, which have brought me to the brink of Sh'ol.
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength;
I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.
I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength,
I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man,
Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde.
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.
I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
I am gessid with hem that goon doun in to the lake; Y am maad as a man with outen help,
I am reckoned with those that go down into the pit; I am as an [able-bodied] man without strength,
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength,
I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.
I am added among those who go down into the deep hole. I am like a man without strength.
I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,
I am counted with them who descend into the pit, I have become as a man that is without help;
(87-5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
Contextual Overview
A song from the Korah family. To the director: About a painful sickness. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
Lord God, you are my Savior. I have been praying to you day and night. 2 Please pay attention to my prayers. Listen to my prayers for mercy. 3 My soul has had enough of this pain! I am ready to die. 4 People already treat me like a dead man, like someone too weak to live. 5 Look for me among the dead, like a body in the grave. I am one of those you have forgotten, cut off from you and your care. 6 You put me in that hole in the ground. Yes, you put me in that dark place. 7 Your anger presses down on me like a heavy weight. It's like one wave after another pounding against me. Selah 8 You made my friends leave me. They all avoid me like someone no one wants to touch. Like a prisoner in my house, I cannot go out. 9 My eyes hurt from crying. Lord , I pray to you constantly! I lift my arms in prayer to you.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
counted: Psalms 28:1, Psalms 30:9, Psalms 143:7, Job 17:1, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 38:18, Ezekiel 26:20, Jonah 2:6, 2 Corinthians 1:9
as a man: Psalms 31:12, Psalms 109:22-24, Romans 5:6, 2 Corinthians 13:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 44:29 - And if Numbers 12:12 - as one dead Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Psalms 69:15 - pit Psalms 142:7 - my soul Psalms 143:3 - made me Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Luke 10:30 - wounded
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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.
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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 88:4. I am counted with them, c. — I am as good as dead nearly destitute of life and hope.
