Psalms 88:10
What meaning of the psalms 88:10 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 88:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah."
What does Psalms 88:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah."
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 this...
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...
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 1 Kings 4:3...
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...
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 Psa...
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...
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...
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; Psalms 5; Psalms...
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...
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....
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...
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...
_[Psalms 88:11]_ הֲ לַ † מֵּתִ֥ים תַּעֲשֶׂה ־פֶּ֑לֶא אִם ־רְ֝פָאִ֗ים יָק֤וּמוּ ׀ יֹוד֬וּךָ סֶּֽלָה׃...
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 P...
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...
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...
_Power. Hebrew, "pride." Thou canst raise a storm, or restore a calm. (Calmet)_...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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, f...
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...
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...
Psalms 88:10 work H6213 (H8799) wonders H6382 dead H4191 (H8801) dead H7496 arise H6965 (H8799) praise H3034 (H8686) Selah H5542 Wilt thou - The interrogations in these verses imply the strongest neg...
DEAD (_ See Scofield) - (Ecclesiastes 9:10). _...
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 trouble...
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 Corinthians 15:52; Ezekiel 37:1; Isaiah 26:19; Isaiah 38:18; Isaiah 38:19; Job 14:7; Luke 7:12; Mark 5:35; Mark 5:36; Psalms 115:17;...
Wonders — In raising them to life. To praise thee — In this world?...