King James Version
Psalms 88:4 in the King James Version says “I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 88 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:”
Psalms 88:4 · KJV
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. from: or, by
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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“I am counted”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“with them that go down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
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