Psalms 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit,.... With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially put to death, and are not laid in a common grave, but put…

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 manifest to others that I must die - that my disease is mortal -…

It should seem, by the titles of this and the following psalm, that Heman was the penman of the one and Ethan of the other. There were two, of these names, who were sons of Zerah the son of Judah, Ch1…

He is regarded as a dying man. The pitis the grave or Sheol. Cp. Psa 28:1; Psa 143:7; Psa 22:29; Pro 1:12.

that hath no strength Like the feeble shadows of the dead. Or as R.V., that hath no help:…