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I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
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Written Off and Worn Out
Commentators explain that the psalmist feels completely abandoned, so close to death that others have already "counted" him among the dead in the grave, or "the pit." He describes himself as a man with absolutely no strength left, with one scholar suggesting the image of a once-mighty hero who is now powerless.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I am counted with them that go down into the pit—I am so near to death that I may be reckoned already as among the dead. It is so m…
19th Century
Anglican
As a man ... —Rather, like a hero whose strength is gone.
Baptist
And my life draws near to the grave. I am counted with those who go down into the pit:
"They put me down as a dead man. Those who s…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I am counted with them that go down into the pit With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors…
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…
