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FOR MY SOUL IS FULL OF TROUBLES - I am full of trouble. The word
rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that
is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that
this...
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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 1 Kings 4:3...
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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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SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13), for emphasis.
THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._...
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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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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; Psalms 5; Psalms...
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the
grave.
MY LIFE DRAWETH NIGH UNTO THE GRAVE - Hebrew, 'unto Sheol;' distinct
from the Hebrew which is rendered "grave" [ qeber (H6...
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88:3 Sheol. (f-14) See Psalms 6:5 ....
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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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GRAVE. — _Sheôl._ Here, as in Psalms 6:4; Psalms 33:19; Isaiah
38:10, there comes into prominence the thought that death severs the
covenant relation with God, and so presents an irresistible reason w...
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_[Psalms 88:4]_ כִּֽי ־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְ רָעֹ֣ות
נַפְשִׁ֑י וְ חַיַּ֗י לִ שְׁאֹ֥ול
הִגִּֽיעוּ׃...
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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 P...
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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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_For thou. Hebrew, "I." Yet St. Jerome agrees with the Septuagint,
(Berthier) though he is quoted by Calmet as conformable with Aquila,
&c., Dixi. --- Heaven and earth shall pass away sooner than God'...
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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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3_For my soul is filled with troubles. _These words contain the excuse
which the prophet pleads for the excess of his grief. They imply that
his continued crying did not proceed from softness or effem...
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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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FOR MY SOUL IS FULL OF TROUBLES,.... Or "satiated or glutted" e with
them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the
allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity and...
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the
grave.
Ver. 3. _For my soul is full of trouble_] _Hypotyposis hominis
luctuosissime affecti._ Here we have the lively picture of a m...
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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, f...
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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, and...
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MY SOUL, properly so called; for that he was under great troubles of
mind from a sense of God's wrath and departure from him, is evident
from PSALMS 88:14....
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Psalms 88:3 soul H5315 full H7646 (H8804) troubles H7451 life H2416
near H5060 (H8689) grave H7585
soul - Psalms 88:14-15, Psalms 22:11-21, Psalms 69:17-21, Psalms 77:2,...
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GRAVE
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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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 trouble...
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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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Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:3; Job 33:22; Job 6:2;
Lamentations 3:15; Mark 14:33; Mark 14:34; Matthew 26:37; Psalms
107:18;...