Verse Psalms 88:4. _I AM COUNTED WITH THEM, C._] I am as good as dead nearly destitute of life and hope....
I AM COUNTED WITH THEM THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT - I am so near to death that I may be reckoned already as among the dead. It is so manifest to others that I must die - that my disease is mortal - tha...
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...
AM. have been. I AM. I am become. MAN. Hebrew. _geber._...
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....
He is regarded as a dying man. _The pit_is the grave or Sheol. Cp. Psalms 28:1; Psalms 143:7; Psalms 22:29; Proverbs 1:12. that hath no stre
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;...
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: I AM COUNTED WITH THEM THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT - I am reckoned among them as one of them (). I AM AS A MAN...
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...
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...
AS A MAN... — Rather, _like a hero whose strength is gone. _...
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...
_Elect. Abraham, and the whole body of the people to whom the Messias had been promised. David was assured that he should spring from his family, ver. 52. (Calmet)_...
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?...
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...
I AM COUNTED WITH THEM THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT,.... With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially put to death, and are not laid in a common grave, but put...
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: Ver. 4. _I am counted with them, &c._] I am looked upon as irrecoverable, given up for desperate. _Conclamatum...
_O Lord God of my salvation_ Who hast so often saved me in former distresses; _I have cried day and night before thee_ Thus God's own elect are said, by Christ, to cry to him, Luke 18:7; and thus ough...
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...
I am counted with them that go down into the pit, those whose death is considered imminent. I AM AS A MAN THAT HATH NO STRENGTH, his utter loss of vitality contrasting with his former strength and ene...
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...
I am given up by my friends and acquaintance for a lost man....
Psalms 88:4 counted H2803 (H8738) down H3381 (H8802) pit H953 man H1397 strength H353 counted -...
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...
_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...
2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 13:4; Ezekiel 26:20; Isaiah 38:17;...
Counted — l am given up by my friends for a lost man....