Revised Version 1895
Psalms 88:4
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
Psalms 88:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
- New International Version (NIV)I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength,
Context of Psalms 88:4
2Let my prayer enter into thy presence; incline thine ear unto my cry: 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help: 5Cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy hand. 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
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נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי עִם־י֣וֹרְדֵי ב֑וֹר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּגֶ֣בֶר אֵֽין־אֱיָֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 88:4
- Psalms 28:1Unto thee, O LORD, will 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 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Psalms 143:7Make haste to answer me, O LORD; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me; lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
- Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
- Isaiah 38:17Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- 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, in 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:
- Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9yea, we ourselves have had the answer of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
- Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
- Romans 5:6For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
- 2 Corinthians 13:4for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.
Commentaries on Psalms 88:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I am counted with them, etc. - I am as good as dead; nearly destitute of life and hope.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4I 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, Psalm 28:1; Psalm 30:4; Isaiah…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5The psalmist calls on the Lord for salvation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. go ... pit--of destruction (Psa 28:1). as a man--literally, "a stout man," whose strength is utterly gone.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 88
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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