Psalms 88:4 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 88:4

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

BSB

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ASV

I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Homily 65, on Psalm 87 (Alternate Series) (420)

"I am counted among them that go down into the pit." This my murderers supposed: that I, going down like the rest of men into the prison of the underworld, was to be held back in the lower pit; not knowing that I had gone down for this reason, that I might rather draw out with me those who were held fast in that very place. "I am become as a man without help, free among the dead."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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, Isa 53:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

I am counted with them that go down into the pit. My weakness is so great that both by myself and others I am considered as good as dead. If those about me have not ordered my coffin they have at least conversed about my sepulchre, discussed my estate, and reckoned their share of it. Many a man has been buried before he was dead, and the only mourning over him has been because he refused to fulfil the greedy expectations of his hypocritical relatives by going down to the pit at once.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי	Nech.shav.ti	I am reckoned	H2803 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
י֣וֹרְדֵי	Yor.dei	[those who] go down of	H3381 →
ב֑וֹר	Vor	[the] pit	H953 →
הָ֝יִ֗יתִי	ha.Yi.ti	I am	H1961 →
כְּגֶ֣בֶר	ke.Ge.ver	like a man	H1397 →
אֵֽין־	'ein-	[whom] there not	H369 →
אֱיָֽל׃	'e.Yal	[is] strength	H353 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 28:1
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
leads to
- Psalms 88:4–6
  I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 143:7
  Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
- Psalms 18:2
  The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Through
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:5
  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7
  Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- Hebrews 11:19
  Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7–10
  or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Through
Psalms 143:7
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
leads to
- Psalms 69:17
  Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms