free among the dead, that is, set free, or released, from the bonds of the living, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Thou rememberest no more, they are no longer active in the history of men, apparently gone and forgotten for the time being; and they are cut off from Thy hand, no longer enjoying its guidance and help.
Verse Psalms 88:5. _FREE AMONG THE DEAD_] במתים צפשי _bammethim chophshi_, I rather think, means _stripped among the dead_. Both the _fourth_ and _fifth_ verses seem to allude to a _field of battle_:...
FREE AMONG THE DEAD - Luther renders this, “I lie forgotten among the dead.” DeWette renders it, “Pertaining to the dead - (den Todten angehorend) - stricken down, like the slain, I lie in the grave,”...
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...
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...
FREE. Set free: i.e. by death, so as to be free from the Law (according to the Talmud, _Shabbath,_ vol. 151. B). THE GRAVE. sepulchre. Hebrew. _keber._ See App-35....
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....
_Free among the dead_ There can hardly be any allusion to Job 3:19, where the word is used of a welcome release from servitude, for it is a far-fetched interpretation to suppose that a new turn is giv...
I AM AS A MAN THAT HATH NO STRENGTH— _I am become as a man that hath no substance:_ [A mere shadow without solidity.] Psalms 88:5. _Set loose among the dead:_ [Set at liberty, as it were, from under t...
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;...
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. FREE AMONG THE DEAD - i:e., severed from thy service. Compare as to the...
88:5 Prostrate (g-1) Or 'Cast away.' hand. (h-25) i.e. 'from thy leading and helping hand.'...
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...
FREE] RV 'cast off.'...
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...
FREE AMONG THE DEAD... — So the old versions without exception, taking _chaphshî_ as an adjective, as in Job 3:19 (where used of _an emancipated slave_); 1 Samuel 17:25 (_free from public burdens_). S...
_[Psalms 88:6]_ בַּ † מֵּתִ֗ים חָ֫פְשִׁ֥י כְּמֹ֤ו...
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...
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...
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...
(c) Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy (d) hand. (c) For he who is dead is free from all cares and business of thi...
Generation. David's posterity occupied the throne for a long time, (Haydock) and subsisted till the coming of Christ; so that if any conqueror of that family had then appeared, the Jews would not have...
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?...
_‘FREE AMONG THE DEAD’_ ‘Free among the dead.’ Psalms 88:5 The freedom of which the author of this psalm writes so despairingly must have been, for him at least, a freedom of isolation, of solitari...
5_Free among the dead, lie the slain who lie in the grave. _The prophet intended to express something more distressing and grievous than common death. First, he says, that _he was free among the dead,...
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...
FREE AMONG THE DEAD,.... If he was a freeman, it was only among the dead, not among the living; if he was free of any city, it was of the city of the dead; he looked upon himself as a dead man, as one...
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Ver. 5. _Free among the dead_] Free of that company, one of the many amon...
_Free among the dead_ Well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered, as a member, into the society of the dead; or, removed from all the affairs and conversation of men as if...
FROM THY HAND: Or, by thy hand...
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...
FREE AMONG THE DEAD; well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered es a member into the society of the dead; as Israelitish servants, when they were made flee, were thereby ma...
Psalms 88:5 Adrift H2670 dead H4191 (H8801) slain H2491 lie H7901 (H8802) grave H6913 remember H2142 ...
Psalms 88:5 The freedom of which the author of this Psalm writes so despairingly must have been, for him at least, a freedom of isolation, of solitariness, of exile and expulsion, rather than of rele...
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...
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...
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...
_Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave._ A TRUE AND A FALSE IDEA OF THE GRAVE I. A true idea of the grave: “Free”-- 1. From all physical sufferings. 2. From all secular anxieti...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 32:18; Genesis 19:29; Genesis 8:1; Isaiah 14:9; Isaiah 38:1
Free — Well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered as a member into the society of the dead. Whom — Thou seemest to neglect and bury in oblivion....