Psalm 88:4

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Summary

Psalm 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Counted

As a man

Bible References

Counted

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;

Do not hide Your face from me,

Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The

grave is ready for me.

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has

kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,

For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

“I descended to the roots of the mountains.
The earth with its bars was around me forever,
But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

As a man

I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

For I am afflicted and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.