Psalms 88:6

“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, etc.] The Targum interprets it of “captivity which was like unto the lowest pit;” and so Jarchi and Kimchi. Some understand it of a prison or dungeon, into which the psalmist was put; it may be interpreted of the pit of the grave, into which Christ was laid; though he continued in it not so long as to see corruption; from that prison and judgment he was quickly taken, (<191610>Psalm 16:10 <235308>Isaiah 53:8), “in darkness”; both corporeal and spiritual, (<402745>Matthew 27:45,46), and it is in the Hebrew text “in darknesses” f1247, denoting both: in the deeps; in the deep waters of affliction, sorrows, and sufferings; (see <196901>”

“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit - That is, I am as if I were thus laid; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly before me, that it may be spoken of as if it were already my abode. The words rendered “lowest pit” mean literally the pit under, or beneath. The reference is to the sepulchre, as in Psalms 88:4. In darkness - The dark grave; the realms of the dead. See the notes at Job 10:21-22. In the deeps - The caverns; the deep places of the earth or the sea. All these expressions are designed to convey the idea that he was near the grave; that there was no hope for him; that he must die. Perhaps also there is connected with this the idea of trouble, of anguish, of sorrow; of that…”

“88:6-7 In his first charge, the psalmist blames the Lord for his demise. God’s overpowering anger did not make sense. • The phrase the darkest depths implies the place of the dead (143:3; see Lam 3:6) or the depths of the sea (Pss 68:22; 69:1-2).”

“lowest: Psa 40:2, Psa 86:13; Deu 32:22 darkness: Psa 143:3; Pro 4:19; Lam 3:2; Joh 12:46; Jde 1:6, Jde 1:13 deeps: Psa 69:15, Psa 130:1 Psalms 88:7”