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

Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent unto me lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like those that go down into the grave.

What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Hear me speedily, O LORD; my spirit fails; hide not thy face from me lest I be like those that go down into the grave.

My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

And I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the grave, with the people of the age, and shall set thee in the lowest part of the earth, as the deserts of old, with those that go down to the grave, that thou not be inhabited again; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

I descended to the roots of the mountains; the earth put her bars about me for ever; yet thou hast brought up my life out of the grave, O LORD my God.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should 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 have become like a lost vessel.

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

For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. By which we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God in you.