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Verse Psalms 88:8. _THOU HAST MADE ME AN ABOMINATION_] This verse has
been supposed to express the _state of a leper_, who, because of the
infectious nature of his disease, is _separated_ from his _fa...
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THOU HAST PUT AWAY MINE ACQUAINTANCE FAR FROM ME - The same ground of
complaint, or expression of the depth of affliction, occurs elsewhere,
Psalms 31:11; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 69:8. See also...
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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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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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Like Job he is deserted even by his familiar friends (not merely
_acquaintance_, as A.V.), and this is due to the act of God, Who has
smitten him with a sickness which makes them loathe even the sight...
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I AM SHUT UP, AND I CANNOT COME FORTH— This is the description of a
person confined for leprosy, which causes him to be avoided, as a
subject of abhorrence even to all his friends....
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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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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me
an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
THOU HAST PUT AWAY MINE ACQUAINTANCE FAR FROM ME. So ; ; ;...
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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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I AM SHUT UP. — Not necessarily an actual imprisonment or
incarceration on account of leprosy, but another figurative way of
describing great trouble. Job 19:8 seems to have been before the poet....
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_[Psalms 88:9]_ הִרְחַ֥קְתָּ מְיֻדָּעַ֗י
מִ֫מֶּ֥נִּי שַׁתַּ֣נִי תֹועֵבֹ֣ות
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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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Thou hast put away mine (f) acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
me an abomination unto them: (g) [I am] shut up, and I cannot come
forth.
(f) He attributes the loss and displeasure of his friend...
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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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8_Thou hast removed my acquaintances from me. _He was now destitute of
all human aid, and _that _also he attributes to the anger of God, in
whose power it is either to bend the hearts of men to humani...
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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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THOU HAST PUT AWAY MINE ACQUAINTANCE FAR FROM ME,.... His familiar
friends, who were well known to him, and he to them: it is a mercy and
privilege to have good acquaintance, and hearty faithful frien...
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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Ver. 8. _Thou hast put away mine acquaintance, &c._] Job and Dav...
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_Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me_ I can have no more
familiarity or intercourse with my friends than if I were in another
world; for thy providence hath removed, or rendered them inca...
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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, his closest friends
drawing back from him with suspicion, knowing no other explanation for
his condition than that of the righteous punishment of God,...
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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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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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I am so sad a spectacle of thy vengeance that my friends avoid and
detest me, lest by conversing with me they should either be filled
with terrors, which men naturally abhor, or be made partakers of m...
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Psalms 88:8 away H7368 acquaintances H3045 (H8794) far H7368 (H8689)
made H7896 (H8804) abomination H8441 up...
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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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_I am shut up, and I cannot come forth._
THE IMPRISONING POWER OF SUFFERING
I. Suffering always shuts us up to ourselves. It does this in two
ways, it destroys both the disposition and the capacity...
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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 Samuel 23:18; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 63:3; Job 12:14; Job 19:13;...