Psalms 88

Psalms 88:5

Free among the dead.

I am as a man already admitted into the society of dead men, free and perfectly acquitted from all the cares and affairs of this life.

Psalms 88:10

Shall the dead arise and praise thee?

Shall the dead arise out of their graves, and live here among men, and celebrate thy praises?

Psalms 88:12

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Shall notice be taken of thy wonderful works, in the grave? and shall the dead carcasses, in that estate of death where all these earthly things are forgotten, be sensible of thy righteous dealings with the living?

Psalms 88:15

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

My trials and sufferings, as they have been grievous, and such as have brought me to the very brink of the grave, so they have been also long and tedious; for even from my youth up, hitherto, have I been exercised with them; and, besides the sense of evils, the fear and expectation of them hath been, and is, no small torment and distraction to me.