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Verse Psalms 88:12. _THE LAND OF FORGETFULNESS?_] The place of
_separate_ _spirits_, or the _invisible world_. The heathens had some
notion of this state. They feigned a river in the invisible world,...
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SHALL THY WONDERS BE KNOWN IN THE DARK? - In the dark world; in “the
land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as
darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness.” Job 10:21.
“...
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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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Again (cp. Psalms 88:1) he pleads the constancy of his prayers. His
strength is failing. He will soon be dead; and in the grave he will be
beyond the reach of God's love and faithfulness. Cp. Job 10:2...
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Nay, God's wonders will not even be known in Darkness, nor His
righteousness, His faithfulness to His covenant (Psalms 71:2, and
often), in the land of Oblivion: where men neither remember God
(Psalms...
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WILT THOU SHEW WONDERS TO THE DEAD— The Psalmist in this, and the
following verses, exaggerates his own distress, and the seeming
impossibility of relief, by representing himself as a dead man, and
hi...
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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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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise
thee? Selah.
-Appeal to God's regard to His own honour as involved in delivering
the suppliant; because it is to the living that...
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88:12 wonders (l-3) Lit. 'wonder.'...
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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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(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the
“stretched-out hands.”...
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In these verses appear three prominent features of the Hebrew
conception of the underworld. It is a place of “destruction”
(comp. Job 26:6; Job 28:22), of “darkness” (comp. Psalms 88:6),
and of “forge...
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_[Psalms 88:13]_ הֲ יִוָּדַ֣ע בַּ † חֹ֣שֶׁךְ...
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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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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the
land (k) of forgetfulness?
(k) That is, in the grave, where only the body lies without all sense
and remembrance....
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If I mistake not, the force and beauty of these expressions are
intended to confirm the certainty of the things they seem to inquire
after. We meet with many such passages in Scripture, where the
cert...
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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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SHALL THY WONDERS BE KNOWN IN THE DARK?.... A description of the grave
again; see Job 10:21, The sense may be, should he continue in the dark
and silent grave, how would the wonders of the grace of Go...
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the
land of forgetfulness?
Ver. 12. _In the land of forgetfulness_] So the state and place of the
dead is called; and why: _See Trapp...
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_Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?_ Namely, in raising them to life
again in this world? No: I know thou wilt not. And therefore now hear
and help me, or it will be too late. _Shall the dead arise a...
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10-18 Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and
lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours
in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to...
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IN THE DARK; in the grave, which is called _the land of darkness_, JOB
10:21,22. IN THE LAND OF FORGETFULNESS; in the grave; so called,
either, first, Actively, because there men forget and neglect al...
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Psalms 88:12 wonders H6382 known H3045 (H8735) dark H2822
righteousness H6666 land H776 forgetfulness H5388
dark -...
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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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_Wilt Thou show wonders to the dead?_
shall the dead arise and praise Thee?
THE GREAT PROBLEM
I. Here is a problem common to humanity. Lived there ever a man who
has not asked this question in some...
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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 88:10 The mention of dying under God’s wrath
(vv. Psalms 88:3) leads to the question: DO YOU WORK WONDERS FOR THE
DEAD? If one were to die under
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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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Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Isaiah 8:22;...
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Forgetfulness — In the grave, where men are forgotten by their
nearest relations....