This psalm is altogether of a mournful and desponding character. The
author is a sufferer; he is expecting to die; he fears to die; he
longs to live; his mind is overwhelmed with gloom which does not...
This is the saddest Psalm in the whole Psalter. It is a pathetic cry
of hopeless despair in the midst of unrelieved suffering. In other
Psalms the light breaks through the clouds at last: here the glo...
LXXXVIII.
“If you listen,” says Lord Bacon, “to David’s harp, you will
hear as many hearse-like airs as carols.” But even among these this
psalm stands alone and peculiar for the sadness of its tragic...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 88
A SONG [OR] PSALM FOR THE SONS OF KORAH, TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON
MAHALATH LEANNOTH, MASCHIL OF HEMAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the word
"maalath", Psalms 53:1. "Leannoth" signifies...
_A.M. 2981. B.C. 1023._
This is the most melancholy of all the Psalms: it is all lamentation,
and mourning, and wo. Here we have the pressure of spirit which the
psalmist was under, Psalms 88:1. His...