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LORD, WHY CASTEST THOU OFF MY SOUL? - Why dost thou forsake or abandon
me? Why is it that thou dost not interpose, since thou hast all power,
and since thou art a God of mercy? Why dost thou not deliv...
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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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FACE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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Death brings no hope. Will not God then listen to his prayer and grant
him some relief in his extremity of suffering and solitude?...
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Questions of surprise and expostulation. Cp. Psalms 74:1; Psalms 77:7.
For the second line cp. Job 13:24; Psalms 13:1. God "shuts out his
prayer,...
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DISCOURSE: 647
DISTRESS OF SOUL CONSIDERED
Psalms 88:14. _Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy
face from me? I am afflicted, and ready to die, from my youth up:
while I suffer thy...
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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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LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
LORD, WHY CASTEST THOU OFF MY SOUL? WHY HIDEST THOU THY FACE FROM ME?
- Messiah's cry on the cross (). Our sins were the cause;...
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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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CASTEST THOU OFF. — The idea is that of throwing away something with
loathing. (Comp. Psalms 43:2.)...
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_[Psalms 88:15]_ לָמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּזְנַ֣ח
נַפְשִׁ֑י תַּסְתִּ֖יר...
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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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_Might. Others can make no resistance with all their armies._...
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There is a great degree of earnestness in the sorrows, again repeated,
through these verses. Jesus, from the moment of his birth to the
cross, sanctified and set apart as he was, a Nazarite from the w...
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14._Wherefore, O Jehovah! wilt thou reject my soul? _These
lamentations at first sight would seem to indicate a state of mind in
which sorrow without any consolation prevailed; but they contain in
the...
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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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LORD, WHY CASTEST THOU OFF MY SOUL?.... Here begins his prayer, which
he determined to present early in the morning, and consists of
expostulations, and a representation of his distressed case: this
s...
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LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from
me?
Ver. 14. _Lord, why castest thou off, &c._] Luther saith of himself,
that after his conversion he lay three days in desperation...
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_In the morning shall my prayer prevent thee_ That is, shall be
offered to thee early, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or
before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun. The sense...
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Lord, why castest Thou off my soul? by apparently despising it with
loathing. WHY HIDEST THOU THY FACE FROM ME? as though unwilling to
help. Cf Psalms 27:9; Psalms 77:7....
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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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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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This proceeding seems not to agree with the benignity of thy nature,
nor with the manner of thy dealing with thy people....
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Psalms 88:14 LORD H3068 off H2186 (H8799) soul H5315 hide H5641
(H8686) face H6440
Lord -...
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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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_Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?_
DIVINE HIDING
God sometimes hides Himself in nature that He may reveal Himself in
providence; He sometimes hides Himself in providence that He may
reveal Himself...
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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 88:13 DARKNESS is the last word in the psalm.
Yet the faithful know that there is no alternative but to keep seeking
the Lord in prayer....
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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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Job 13:24; Matthew 27:46; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 43:2; Psalms 44:24;...