You have laid me in the lowest pit — That is, I am as if I were laid in this way; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly befo…

Lowest pit. See Note on Psalms 86:13.

Very properly here comes a "Selah." Such a strain upon the harp-strings had put them all out of tune; so the players had notice to retune their har…

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit. The Psalmist now acknowledges more distinctly that whatever adversities he endured proceeded from the…

You have laid me in the lowest pit
The Targum interprets it of captivity which was like to the lowest pit;'' and so …

The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Good people can be so greatly afflicted, and may have such…