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PSALM LXXXVIII
_The earnest prayer of a person in deep distress, abandoned by_
_his friends and neighbours, and apparently forsaken of God_,
1-18.
NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVIII
Perhaps the _title_ of...
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O LORD GOD OF MY SALVATION - On whom I depend for salvation; who alone
canst save me. Luther renders this, “O God, my Saviour.”
I HAVE CRIED DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE THEE - literally, “By day I cried;
by...
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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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TITLE. MASCHIL . Instruction. The eleventh of thirteen so named. See
note on Title, Psalms 32, and App-65. The title, rearranged as above,
removes the difficulty of this Psalm being ascribed to two di...
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_O Lord God_&c. Jehovah, the God of my salvation. Cp. Psalms 27:9.
_I have cried day and night before thee_ Parallels such as Psalms 22:2
suggest that this is the meaning intended, but it is difficult...
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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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_A prayer, containing a grievous complaint._
A Song _or_ Psalm for the sons of Korah: to the chief Musician upon
Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
_Title._ האזרחי להימן משׂכיל לענות מ...
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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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O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms 88:1.-Invocation (Psalms 88:1); ground of the prayer, the
suppliant's misery even unto death (Psalms 88:3); God's honour...
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88:1 Leannoth. (e-16) The meaning of _ Mahalath_ is uncertain, see
Psalms 53 . _ Leannoth_ may mean 'for subdued singing.'...
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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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שִׁ֥יר מִזְמֹ֗ור לִ בְנֵ֫י קֹ֥רַח לַ
†...
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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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Ezrahite. Septuagint, &c., " Israelite, " as in the former psalm. The
Jews think that Ethan or Eman lived during the Egyptian bondage. But
this psalm was rather composed by one of the captives at Baby...
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It is not of so much importance to enquire, by what hand the Holy
Ghost sent this Psalm to the church, especially as the Lord the Spirit
hath not thought proper to inform us. But it should seem to be...
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CONTENTS
Whether the penman of this Psalm, under the spirit of prophecy, is
describing the Person and sorrows of the ever-blessed Jesus; or
whether they be the afflictions of his church and people; y...
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1_O Jehovah! God of my salvation! _Let me call upon you particularly
to notice what I have just now stated, that although the prophet
simply, and without hyperbole, recites the agony which he suffered...
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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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O LORD GOD OF MY SALVATION,.... The author both of temporal and
spiritual salvation; see Psalms 18:46 from the experience the psalmist
had had of the Lord's working salvation for him in times past, he...
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Psalms 88:1 «A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief
Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. » O
LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before the...
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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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O Lord God of my salvation, in whom alone there is salvation for all
men, a fact which makes it necessary for every individual to cling to
Him in faith, I HAVE CRIED DAY AND NIGHT, without ceasing, BE...
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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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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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PSALM 88 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was composed upon a particular
occasion, to wit, Heman's deep distress and dejection of mind almost
to despair. But though this was the occasion of it, it is of more
g...
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Psalms 88:1 Song H7892 Psalm H4210 sons H1121 Korah H7141 Musician
H5329 (H8764) Mahalath H4257 Leannoth H6031 ...
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MAHALATH
Or, M'holoth, meaning dancing with glad noises....
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Psalms 88:1
This Psalm is written under feelings of affliction and deep heaviness
of spirit. But its peculiarity is not that it is written under these
feelings, but that these feelings are never once...
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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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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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1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 2 Timothy 1:3;...