Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 88:14
This proceeding seems not to agree with the benignity of thy nature, nor with the manner of thy dealing with thy people.
This proceeding seems not to agree with the benignity of thy nature, nor with the manner of thy dealing with thy people.
Verse Psalms 88:14. _WHY CASTEST THOU OFF MY SOUL?_] Instead of _my soul_, several of the ancient _Versions_ have _my prayer_. Why dost thou refuse to _hear_ me, and thus abandon me to _death_?...
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...
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...
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...
FACE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
Death brings no hope. Will not God then listen to his prayer and grant him some relief in his extremity of suffering and solitude?...
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,...
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...
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;...
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;...
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...
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...
CASTEST THOU OFF. — The idea is that of throwing away something with loathing. (Comp. Psalms 43:2.)...
_[Psalms 88:15]_ לָמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּזְנַ֣ח נַפְשִׁ֑י תַּסְתִּ֖יר...
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...
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...
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...
_Might. Others can make no resistance with all their armies._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
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...
Psalms 88:14 LORD H3068 off H2186 (H8799) soul H5315 hide H5641 (H8686) face H6440 Lord -...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Job 13:24; Matthew 27:46; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 43:2; Psalms 44:24;...