John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 88:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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>

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