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Verse Psalms 88:4. _I AM COUNTED WITH THEM, C._] I am as good as dead
nearly destitute of life and hope....
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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...
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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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AM. have been.
I AM. I am become.
MAN. Hebrew. _geber._...
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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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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
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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...
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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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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...
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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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AS A MAN... — Rather, _like a hero whose strength is gone.
_...
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_[Psalms 88:5]_ נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי עִם
־יֹ֣ורְדֵי בֹ֑ור הָ֝יִ֗יתִי...
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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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_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)_...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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 given up by my friends and acquaintance for a lost man....
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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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_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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2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 13:4; Ezekiel 26:20; Isaiah 38:17;...
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Counted — l am given up by my friends for a lost man....