“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.”
The pit's darkness is described: "You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep." The placement in darkness and depth emphasizes total abandonment and entrapment. The Pit becomes a place of divine action against the supplicant.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:6
1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi: and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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