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

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, I call to you. O my rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. If you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit (grave).

What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it declare your truth?

Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for 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 waiting for me.

Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.

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

I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

As a man

I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart.

While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.