"A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath (a) Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite." O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night (b) before thee:
(a) That is, to humble. It was the beginning of a song by which tune this psalm was sung.
(b) Though many cry in their sorrows, yet they cry not earnestly to God for remedy as he did whom he confessed to be the author of his salvation.
PSALM LXXXVIII _The earnest prayer of a person in deep distress, abandoned by_ _his friends and neighbours, and apparently forsaken of God_, 1-18. NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVIII Perhaps the _title_ of...
O LORD GOD OF MY SALVATION - On whom I depend for salvation; who alone canst save me. Luther renders this, “O God, my Saviour.” I HAVE CRIED DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE THEE - literally, “By day I cried; by...
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...
TITLE. MASCHIL . Instruction. The eleventh of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 32, and App-65. The title, rearranged as above, removes the difficulty of this Psalm being ascribed to two di...
_O Lord God_&c. Jehovah, the God of my salvation. Cp. Psalms 27:9. _I have cried day and night before thee_ Parallels such as Psalms 22:2 suggest that this is the meaning intended, but it is difficult...
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....
_A prayer, containing a grievous complaint._ A Song _or_ Psalm for the sons of Korah: to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. _Title._ האזרחי להימן משׂכיל לענות מ...
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;...
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Psalms 88:1.-Invocation (Psalms 88:1); ground of the prayer, the suppliant's misery even unto death (Psalms 88:3); God's honour...
88:1 Leannoth. (e-16) The meaning of _ Mahalath_ is uncertain, see Psalms 53 . _ Leannoth_ may mean 'for subdued singing.'...
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...
שִׁ֥יר מִזְמֹ֗ור לִ בְנֵ֫י קֹ֥רַח לַ †...
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...
Ezrahite. Septuagint, &c., " Israelite, " as in the former psalm. The Jews think that Ethan or Eman lived during the Egyptian bondage. But this psalm was rather composed by one of the captives at Baby...
It is not of so much importance to enquire, by what hand the Holy Ghost sent this Psalm to the church, especially as the Lord the Spirit hath not thought proper to inform us. But it should seem to be...
CONTENTS Whether the penman of this Psalm, under the spirit of prophecy, is describing the Person and sorrows of the ever-blessed Jesus; or whether they be the afflictions of his church and people; y...
1_O Jehovah! God of my salvation! _Let me call upon you particularly to notice what I have just now stated, that although the prophet simply, and without hyperbole, recites the agony which he suffered...
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...
O LORD GOD OF MY SALVATION,.... The author both of temporal and spiritual salvation; see Psalms 18:46 from the experience the psalmist had had of the Lord's working salvation for him in times past, he...
Psalms 88:1 «A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. » O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before the...
_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...
O Lord God of my salvation, in whom alone there is salvation for all men, a fact which makes it necessary for every individual to cling to Him in faith, I HAVE CRIED DAY AND NIGHT, without ceasing, BE...
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...
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, an...
PSALM 88 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was composed upon a particular occasion, to wit, Heman's deep distress and dejection of mind almost to despair. But though this was the occasion of it, it is of more g...
Psalms 88:1 Song H7892 Psalm H4210 sons H1121 Korah H7141 Musician H5329 (H8764) Mahalath H4257 Leannoth H6031 ...
MAHALATH Or, M'holoth, meaning dancing with glad noises....
Psalms 88:1 This Psalm is written under feelings of affliction and deep heaviness of spirit. But its peculiarity is not that it is written under these feelings, but that these feelings are never once...
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...
_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...
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...
1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 2 Timothy 1:3;...