Psalms 88:4

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.

Related Commentaries of 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 o...
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 tor...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

am . have been. I am . I am become. man. Hebrew. geber.
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 amo...
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 a...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As a man... — Rather, like a hero whose strength is gone.
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...
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...
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 hea...
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...
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 t...
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 upo...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am given up by my friends and acquaintance for a lost man.
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 Introduc...
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...
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 Chronic...
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...
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 bitte...
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 music...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
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:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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:

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 88:4