Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted, and ready to die— I have been low and expiring from my youth: i.e. "Even from my youth I have laboured under this misery, which now so dreadfully afflicts me."
I am afflicted, and ready to die— I have been low and expiring from my youth: i.e. "Even from my youth I have laboured under this misery, which now so dreadfully afflicts me."
Verse Psalms 88:15. _FROM_ MY _YOUTH UP._] I have always been a child of sorrow, afflicted in my body, and distressed in my mind. There are still found in the Church of God persons in similar circums...
I AM AFFLICTED AND READY TO DIE - I am so afflicted - so crushed with sorrow and trouble - that my strength is nearly gone, and I can endure it but a little longer. FROM MY YOUTH UP - That is, for a l...
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...
Death brings no hope. Will not God then listen to his prayer and grant him some relief in his extremity of suffering and solitude?...
Will God have no pity upon one whose whole life has been spent at the point of death? Could this be said of Israel as a nation? -From youth" is of course frequently used of the nation (Psalms 129:1-2;...
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;...
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. I AM AFFLICTED AND READY TO DIE FROM MY YOUTH UP. So Israel from the days of her youth as a nation (; ;...
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...
TERRORS. — Another of the many expressions which connect this psalm with the book of Job. (See Job 6:4; Job 9:34, &c.) DISTRACTED. — The Hebrew word is peculiar to the place. The ancient versions all...
_[Psalms 88:16]_ עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְ גֹוֵ֣עַ מִ...
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...
I [am] afflicted and ready to die (l) from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. (l) I am always in great dangers and sorrows as though my life would utterly be cut off every m...
_Preparation. Hebrew, "basis." --- Face. Like guards. (Menochius) --- He extols the mercy, and still more the fidelity of God. (Calmet) --- Whether he punished, or reward, all tends to promote his glo...
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...
The reason why he says that _he was ready to die _(518) _from his youth, _(verse 15,) is uncertain, unless it may be considered a probable conjecture that he was severely tried in a variety of ways, s...
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...
I AM AFFLICTED,.... In body and mind, from within and from without, by Satan, by the men of the world, and by the Lord himself; which is the common lot of God's people, Psalms 34:19 and was the case o...
I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Ver. 15. _I am afflicted, &c._] He was brought up in the school of temptations, and kept in this fo...
_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...
I am afflicted and ready to die, on the point of death on account of the many troubles laid upon him, FROM MY YOUTH UP; WHILE I SUFFER THY TERRORS, I AM DISTRACTED, in such extremes of anguish and des...
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...
FROM MY YOUTH UP; my whole life hath been filled with a succession of deadly calamities. O Lord, take some pity upon me, and let me have a little breathing space before I die. I SUFFER THY TERRORS upo...
Psalms 88:15 afflicted H6041 die H1478 (H8802) youth H5290 suffer H5375 (H8804) terrors H367 distraught H6323 ...
Psalms 88:15 What is it that the psalmist declares of himself in these words but that God's judgments have always and habitually possessed his mind; that the fear of them has hung like a weight upon h...
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...
_I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer Thy terrors, I am distracted._ RELIGIOUS TERRORS As the comforts which true religion affords are the only sure support against the ev...
_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...
Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:3; Job 17:1; Job 17:11; Job 6:4;...