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Verse Psalms 88:10. _WILT THOU SHOW WONDERS TO THE DEAD!_] מתים
_methim, dead_ _men_.
_SHALL THE DEAD_] רפאים _rephaim_, "the manes or departed
spirits."
_ARISE_ AND _PRAISE THEE?_] Any more in thi...
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WILT THOU SHOW WONDERS TO THE DEAD? - The wonders - or the things
suited to excite admiration - which the living behold. Shall the dead
see those things which here tend to excite reverence for thee, a...
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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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DEAD. Hebrew. _Rephaim,_ who have no resurrection. See note on Isaiah
26:14, where it is rendered "deceased"; and 19, where it is rendered
"the dead". Compare App-23 and App-25.
SELAH. Connecting Psal...
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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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This and the two following verses can hardly be, as some commentators
suppose, the prayer to which he refers in Psalms 88:9. The connexion
of thought seems to be this. He has prayed that God will shew...
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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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88:10 wonders (l-4) Lit. 'wonder.' shades (m-10) Or 'the dead,' as Job
26:5 ; Proverbs 2:18 ; Isaiah 14:9 ; not the same as 'dead' in this
verse....
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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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(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the
“stretched-out hands.”...
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SHALL THE DEAD ARISE? ... — These words are not to be taken in the
sense of a final resurrection as we understand it. The hope of this
had hardly yet dawned on Israel. The underworld is imagined as a...
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_[Psalms 88:11]_ הֲ לַ † מֵּתִ֥ים תַּעֲשֶׂה...
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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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Wilt thou shew (i) wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and]
praise thee? Selah.
(i) He shows that the time is more convenient for God to help when men
call to him in their dangers, than to tar...
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_Power. Hebrew, "pride." Thou canst raise a storm, or restore a calm.
(Calmet)_...
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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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10._Wilt thou perform a miracle for the dead? _By these words the
prophet intimates, that God, if he did not make haste to succor him,
would be too late, there being scarce anything betwixt him and de...
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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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WILT THOU SHOW WONDERS TO THE DEAD?.... The Lord does show wonders to
some that are spiritually dead, dead in Adam, dead in law, dead in
trespasses and sins, by quickening them; whereby the wonders of...
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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise
thee? Selah.
Ver. 10. _Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?_] Wilt thou delay to
deliver me till I am dead, and then raise me agai...
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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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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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WILT THOU SHOW WONDERS TO THE DEAD, to wit, in raising them to live
again in this world? as it is in the next clause. I know that thou
wilt not. And therefore now hear and help me, or it will be too l...
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Psalms 88:10 work H6213 (H8799) wonders H6382 dead H4191 (H8801) dead
H7496 arise H6965 (H8799) praise...
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DEAD
(_ See Scofield) - (Ecclesiastes 9:10). _...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:52; Ezekiel 37:1; Isaiah 26:19; Isaiah 38:18;...
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Wonders — In raising them to life. To praise thee — In this world?...