am. have been.
I am. I am become.
man. Hebrew. geber.
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 o...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
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...
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 amo...
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 a...
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...
As a man... — Rather, like a hero whose strength is gone.
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...
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...
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 hea...
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...
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 t...
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 upo...
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,...
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of...
I am given up by my friends and acquaintance for a lost man.
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Song or Psalm,” i.e. , combining the properties of both a Psalm and a song. “For the sons of Korah ,” see Introduc...
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...
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 Chronic...
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...
EXPOSITION THE most mournful of all the psalms. After one almost formal "word of trust" ( Psalms 88:1 ), the remainder is a continuous bitte...
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 music...
I am counted with them that go down into the pit, those whose death is considered imminent. I am as a man that hath no strength, his utter loss of...
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:...
Counted — l am given up by my friends for a lost man.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: