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Selected Verse: Psalms 88:6 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 88:6 |
Strong Concordance |
Thou hast laid [07896] me in the lowest [08482] pit [0953], in darkness [04285], in the deeps [04688]. |
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King James |
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Similar figures for distress in Psa 63:9; Psa 69:3. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 Psa 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 mental darkness of which the grave was an image, and into which he was plunged by the prospect of death. The whole scene was a sad one, and he was overwhelmed with grief, and saw only the prospect of continued sorrow and gloom. Even a good man may be made afraid - may have his mind made sad and sorrowful - by the prospect of dying. See Isa. 38. Death is naturally gloomy; and when the light of religion does not shine upon the soul, and its comforts do not fill the heart, it is but natural that the mind should be full of gloom. |
3 I am weary [03021] of my crying [07121]: my throat [01627] is dried [02787]: mine eyes [05869] fail [03615] while I wait [03176] for my God [0430].
9 But those that seek [01245] my soul [05315], to destroy [07722] it, shall go [0935] into the lower parts [08482] of the earth [0776].
21 Before I go [03212] whence I shall not return [07725], even to the land [0776] of darkness [02822] and the shadow of death [06757];
22 A land [0776] of darkness [05890], as darkness [0652] itself; and of the shadow of death [06757], without any order [05468], and where the light [03313] is as darkness [0652].
4 I am counted [02803] with them that go down [03381] into the pit [0953]: I am as a man [01397] that hath no strength [0353]: