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SHALL THY LOVING-KINDNESS BE DECLARED IN THE GRAVE? - Thy goodness;
thy mercy. Shall anyone make it known there? shall it there be
celebrated?
OR THY FAITHFULNESS IN DESTRUCTION? - In the place where...
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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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To proclaim God's lovingkindness and faithfulness is the delight of
His people (Psalms 40:10; Psalms 92:2), but in the grave they will
neither have cause nor power to do it. These two attributes, so o...
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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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88:11 Destruction? (n-12) Heb. _ Abaddon_ ....
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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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IN DESTRUCTION] RV 'in Destruction.' The Heb. is _Abaddon,_ used as a
proper name for Sheol: see Job 26:6; Job 28:22; Job 31:12; Proverbs
15:11;...
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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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LOVINGKINDNESS. — Better here, _covenant grace._ The grave knew
nothing of this. Death severed the covenant relationship. So
“faithfulness,” “wonders,” “righteousness” are all used in
their limited se...
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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 88:12]_ הַ יְסֻפַּ֣ר בַּ † קֶּ֣בֶר...
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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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_Proud one. Hebrew Rahab, Egypt or Pharao, Psalm lxxxvi. 4., and
Isaias li. 9. (Calmet) He alludes to the plagues inflicted on the
Egyptians, &c. (Worthington)_...
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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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13._But to thee have I cried, O Jehovah! _There may have been a degree
of intemperateness in the language of the prophet, which, as I have
granted, cannot be altogether vindicated; but still it was a...
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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 LOVINGKINDNESS BE DECLARED IN THE GRAVE?.... Where he saw
himself now going, and where should he be detained, and not raised out
of it, the lovingkindness of God to him, as his Son, and as m...
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Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy
faithfulness in destruction?
Ver. 11. _Shall thy loving kindness, &c._] The same again, and Psalms
88:12 a third time, _pro more dolentium....
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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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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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Shall Thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave or Thy faithfulness
in destruction, in the place of ruin?...
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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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I am not without hopes that thou hast a true kindness for me, and wilt
faithfully perform thy gracious promises made to me, and to all that
love thee and call upon thee in truth. But then this must be...
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Psalms 88:11 lovingkindness H2617 declared H5608 (H8792) grave H6913
faithfulness H530 destruction H11
in destruction -...
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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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2 Peter 2:1; Job 21:30; Job 26:6; Matthew 7:13; Proverbs 15:11;...
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Do the dead have remembrance of anything?
(See comments under Ecclesiastes 9:5)...