Psalms 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 88 connects to 10 cross-references. A Korahite lament of Heman the Ezrahite, one of the darkest psalms in the Psalter, expressing unrelenting suffering and divine abandonment. Unlike most laments it contains no turn toward confidence or praise. The psalmist is counted among those going to …
Other Translations
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
I have been reckoned with those going down <FI>to<Fi> the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Cross References
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope …
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit …
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and …
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet …
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak …
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which …
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them …
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.