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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...
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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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Death brings no hope. Will not God then listen to his prayer and grant
him some relief in his extremity of suffering and solitude?...
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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;...
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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...
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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....
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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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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 (; ;...
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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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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...
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_[Psalms 88:16]_ עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְ גֹוֵ֣עַ מִ...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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Psalms 88:15 afflicted H6041 die H1478 (H8802) youth H5290 suffer
H5375 (H8804) terrors H367 distraught H6323 ...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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 88:13 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....
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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 53:3; Job 17:1; Job 17:11; Job 6:4;...