I am counted among them that go down unto the pit, and am as a man without strength,

[a]Free among the dead, like the slain laying in the grave, when thou rememberest no more, and they are cut off from thy [b]hand.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the deep.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:5 For he that is dead, is free from all cares and business of this life: and thus he saith, because he was unprofitable for all matters concerning man’s life, and as it were cut off from this world.
  2. Psalm 88:5 That is, from thy providence and care, which is meant according to the judgment of the flesh.

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