Psalms 88:4

“I am counted with them that go down into the pit, etc.] 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, (<235303>Isaiah 53:3,4,12). I am as a man that hath no strength; for his “strength” was “dried up like a potsherd”, (<192215>Psalm 22:15), though he was the mighty God, and, as man, was made strong by the Lord…”

“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 - that they already speak of me as dead. The word “pit” here means the grave - the same as Sheol in the previous verse. It means properly (1) a pit, (2) a cistern, Genesis 37:20, (3) a prison or dungeon, Isaiah 24:22, (4) the grave, Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:4; Isaiah 38:18. I am as a man that hath no strength - Who has no power to resist disease, no vigor of constitution remaining; who must die. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Counted - l am given up by my friends for a lost man. Psalms 88:5”

“counted: Psa 28:1, Psa 30:9, Psa 143:7; Job 17:1; Isa 38:17, Isa 38:18; Eze 26:20; Jon 2:6; Co2 1:9 as a man: Psa 31:12, Psa 109:22-24; Rom 5:6; Co2 13:4 Psalms 88:5”