Psalms 88:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 88:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I 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...
Psalms 88:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tormented by sickness from his youth ( Psalms 88:15 )...
Psalms 88:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

am . have been. I am . I am become. man. Hebrew. geber.
Psalms 88:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: I am counted with them, etc. - I am as good as dead; nearly destitute of life and hope.
Psalms 88:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am as a man that hath no strength— I am become as a man that hath no substance: [A mere shadow without solidity.] Psalms 88:5 . Set loose among the dead: [Set at liberty, as it were, from un...
Psalms 88:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: I am counted with them that go down into the pit - I am reckoned among them as one of them ( Psalms 28:1...
Psalms 88:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is the saddest and most despairing of all the Pss. The writer is apparently the victim of some incurable disease like leprosy, with which he has been afflicted from his youth ( Psalms 88:15 ), a...
Psalms 88:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As a man... — Rather, like a hero whose strength is gone.
Psalms 88:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:1-18 A PSALM which begins with "God of my salvation" and ends with "darkness" is an anomaly. All but unbroken gloom broods over it, and is densest at its close. The psalmist is so "weigh...
Psalms 88:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry from the Waves Psalms 88:1-18 Most of the psalms which begin in sorrow end in exuberant joy and praise. This is an exception. There seems to be no break in the monotony of grief and despa...
Psalms 88:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song sobbing with sadness form beginning to end. It seems to have no gleam of light or of hope. Commencing with an appeal to Jehovah to hear, it proceeds to describe the terrible sorrows th...
Psalms 88:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is impossible for a child of God, one should think, to have any doubts as to whom these expressions peculiarly and principally belong. To whom can they so properly belong, as to the blessed Jesus?...
Psalms 88:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 p...
Psalms 88:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: Ver. 4. I am counted with them, &c. ] I am looked upon as irrecoverable, given up for desperate. Concl...
Psalms 88:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O Lord God of my salvation Who hast so often saved me in former distresses; I have cried day and night before thee Thus God's own elect are said, by Christ, to cry to him, Luke 18:7 ; and thus o...
Psalms 88:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Lean...
Psalms 88:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am given up by my friends and acquaintance for a lost man.
Psalms 88:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Song or Psalm,” i.e. , combining the properties of both a Psalm and a song. “For the sons of Korah ,” see Introduction to Psalms 42 . “The expression, ‘To the Chie...
Psalms 88:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahaloth Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. I think that this is the darkest of all the Psalms; it has hardly a spot of light i...
Psalms 88:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dr. Lightfoot affirms that this, and the eighty ninth psalm, were written by Heman and Ethan, sons of Zerah, or the Ezrahites mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:6 . Consequently, they lived about the time...
Psalms 88:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee. A portrait of a suffering man I. Depicting his wretched state. He speaks of himself as “full of troubles,” satiated with suff...
Psalms 88:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE most mournful of all the psalms. After one almost formal "word of trust" ( Psalms 88:1 ), the remainder is a continuous bitter cry of complaint, rising at times into expostula...
Psalms 88:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Lament in the Midst of Suffering and Tribulation. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, written by a member of this illustrious family of musicians, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Leannoth...
Psalms 88:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:9 ; 2 Corinthians 13:4 ; Ezekiel 26:20 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Isaiah 38:18 ; Job 17:1 ; Jonah 2:6 ; Psalms 109:22-24 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 28:1 ; Psalms 30:9 ; Psalms 31:12 ;...
Psalms 88:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Counted — l am given up by my friends for a lost man.

Psalms 88:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 88:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes