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Verse Psalms 88:7. _THOU HAST AFFLICTED_ ME _WITH ALL THY WAVES._] The
figures in this verse seem to be taken from a tempest at sea. The
storm is fierce, and the waves cover the ship....
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THY WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME - Presses me down; burdens me. The
meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of
wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pressed...
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Psalms 88
The Deepest Soul Misery Poured Out
_ 1. In deepest misery and distress (Psalms 88:1)_
2. Crying and no answer (Psalms 88:8)
This is a Maschil Psalm by Heman the Ezrahite. See...
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LXXXVIII. A LEPER'S PRAYER. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The
suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has
been tormented by sickness from his youth (Psalms 88:15). Yah...
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UPON ME. Same word as "over me", Psalms 88:16, with which the member
corresponds.
SELAH. Connecting Psalms 88:6 with its amplification in verses: Psalms
88:8;...
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The Psalmist appeals for a hearing, supporting his appeal by a
pathetic description of the chastisements by which God has brought him
to the very edge of the grave....
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_Thy wrath_&c. Cp. Psalms 32:4; Psalms 38:2.
_thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves_ Cp. Psalms 42:7 for the
metaphor....
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PSALMS 88
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
The Anguished Cry of one Smitten and Forsaken.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 88:1-2, Urgent Prayer to be Heard. Stanzas II.,
III., IV., V., Psalms 88:3-4;...
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy
waves. Selah.
THY WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME - as a heavy burden (Psalms 38:3).
THOU HAST AFFLICTED (ME) WITH ALL THY WAVES. SE...
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88:7 waves. (k-15) Strictly, 'breakers,' as Psalms 42:7 ....
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This is the saddest and most despairing of all the Pss. The writer is
apparently the victim of some incurable disease like leprosy, with
which he has been afflicted from his youth (Psalms 88:15), and...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
PSALMS 88
Jesus went into a town called Nain. Many of his *disciples and a lot
of people went with him. Now when he came near to the gate...
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AND THOU HAST AFFLICTED. — Literally, _And thou hast pressed_
(_me_)_ down with all thy breakers,_ supplying the object, and taking
the accusative in the text as the instrument, as in Psalms 102:23,
w...
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_[Psalms 88:8]_ עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְ
כָל...
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Psalms 88:1
A PSALM which begins with "God of my salvation" and ends with
"darkness" is an anomaly. All but unbroken gloom broods over it, and
is densest at its close. The psalmist is so "weighed upon...
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A CRY FROM THE WAVES
Psalms 88:1
Most of the psalms which begin in sorrow end in exuberant joy and
praise. This is an exception. There seems to be no break in the
monotony of grief and despair. In Ps...
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This is a song sobbing with sadness form beginning to end. It seems to
have no gleam of light or of hope. Commencing with an appeal to
Jehovah to hear, it proceeds to describe the terrible sorrows thr...
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all
thy (e) waves. Selah.
(e) The storms of your wrath have overwhelmed me....
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It is impossible for a child of God, one should think, to have any
doubts as to whom these expressions peculiarly and principally belong.
To whom can they so properly belong, as to the blessed Jesus?...
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Some translate the first clause of the 7th verse, _Thy indignation
hath approached upon me; _and the Hebrew word סמך, _samach, _is
sometimes to be taken in this sense. But from the scope of the
passag...
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Psalms 88 puts the remnant under the deep and dreadful sense of a
broken law, and God's fierce wrath, which, in justice comes upon those
who have done so. It is not now outward sorrows or oppression o...
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THE WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME,.... So some good men apprehend, when
they are under afflictive dispensations of Providence, and are left of
God, and have not his immediate presence, and the discoveries...
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all
thy waves. Selah.
Ver. 7. _Thy wrath lieth hard upon me_] So it did upon David, Psalms
32:3, but especially upon the Son of David,...
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_Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit_, &c. In hopeless and remediless
calamities. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal
apprehensions may they have concerning their afflictions, and...
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A LAMENT IN THE MIDST OF SUFFERING AND TRIBULATION.
A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, written by a member of this
illustrious family of musicians, to the chief musician upon Mahalath
Leannoth, fo...
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, pressing down upon him as with the force
of mighty billows, AND THOU HAST AFFLICTED ME WITH ALL THY WAVES,
bowing down His wrath upon him, like the breakers of the seasho...
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1-9 The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and
support in this psalm. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and
such dismal thoughts may they have about their afflictions, an...
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THY WRATH; either, first, the sense of thy wrath; or rather, secondly,
the effects of it; as the next clause explains this. WITH ALL THY
WAVES; with thy judgments, breaking in furiously upon me like t...
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Psalms 88:7 wrath H2534 heavy H5564 (H8804) afflicted H6031 (H8765)
waves H4867 Selah H5542
Thy wrath -...
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A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon
Mahaloth Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. I think that this is
the darkest of all the Psalms; it has hardly a spot of light in...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation over trouble and pleading with God for mercy.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: Sometimes the best of God's saints are severely exercised
with the sorest of inward troubles...
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Dr. Lightfoot affirms that this, and the eighty ninth psalm, were
written by Heman and Ethan, sons of Zerah, or the Ezrahites mentioned
in 1 Chronicles 2:6. Consequently, they lived about the time whe...
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_Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast afflicted me with all Thy
waves._
FOR THE TROUBLED
As men, the people of God share the common lot of men, and what is
that but trouble? Yea, there are som...
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_O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee._
A PORTRAIT OF A SUFFERING MAN
I. Depicting his wretched state. He speaks of himself as “full of
troubles,” satiated with sufferi...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 88:1. This is an individual lament. It is
suited for a person who is so overwhelmed with troubles that even his
friends shun him, and who suspects that the Lord has shunned...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 88:3 The next section describes the trouble in
general terms, focusing more on the feelings (MY SOUL IS FULL OF
TROUBLES) than on the external circumstances. YOUR WRATH LIES HEAVY...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription.—“A Song or Psalm,” i.e._, combining the
properties of both a Psalm and a song. _“For the sons of Korah_,”
see Introduction to Psalms 42. “The expression, ‘To the Chief
Mu...
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EXPOSITION
THE most mournful of all the psalms. After one almost formal "word of
trust" (_Psalms 88:1_), the remainder is a continuous bitter cry of
complaint, rising at times into expostulation (Psal...
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Psa 88:1-18 is just a sad psalm, all the way through. There just seems
to be no hope; it's just miserable. When you really are feeling lower
than low, and you think there is absolutely no way out, the...
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1 Peter 2:24; Job 10:16; Job 6:4; John 3:36; Jonah 2:3;...
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Waves — With they judgments, breaking in furiously upon me like the
waves of the sea....