Psalms 88:3
What meaning of the psalms 88:3 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 88:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
What does Psalms 88:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
FOR MY SOUL IS FULL OF TROUBLES - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that this...
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...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13), for emphasis. THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._...
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....
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...
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. MY LIFE DRAWETH NIGH UNTO THE GRAVE - Hebrew, 'unto Sheol;' distinct from the Hebrew which is rendered "grave" [ qeber (H6...
88:3 Sheol. (f-14) See Psalms 6:5 ....
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...
GRAVE. — _Sheôl._ Here, as in Psalms 6:4; Psalms 33:19; Isaiah 38:10, there comes into prominence the thought that death severs the covenant relation with God, and so presents an irresistible reason w...
_[Psalms 88:4]_ כִּֽי ־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְ רָעֹ֣ות נַפְשִׁ֑י וְ חַיַּ֗י לִ שְׁאֹ֥ול הִגִּֽיעוּ׃...
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...
_For thou. Hebrew, "I." Yet St. Jerome agrees with the Septuagint, (Berthier) though he is quoted by Calmet as conformable with Aquila, &c., Dixi. --- Heaven and earth shall pass away sooner than God'...
It is impossible for a child of God, one should think, to have any doubts as to whom these expressions peculiarly and principally belong. To whom can they so properly belong, as to the blessed Jesus?...
3_For my soul is filled with troubles. _These words contain the excuse which the prophet pleads for the excess of his grief. They imply that his continued crying did not proceed from softness or effem...
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...
FOR MY SOUL IS FULL OF TROUBLES,.... Or "satiated or glutted" e with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity and...
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Ver. 3. _For my soul is full of trouble_] _Hypotyposis hominis luctuosissime affecti._ Here we have the lively picture of a m...
_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...
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...
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, and...
MY SOUL, properly so called; for that he was under great troubles of mind from a sense of God's wrath and departure from him, is evident from PSALMS 88:14....
Psalms 88:3 soul H5315 full H7646 (H8804) troubles H7451 life H2416 near H5060 (H8689) grave H7585 soul - Psalms 88:14-15, Psalms 22:11-21, Psalms 69:17-21, Psalms 77:2,...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:3; Job 33:22; Job 6:2; Lamentations 3:15; Mark 14:33; Mark 14:34; Matthew 26:37; Psalms 107:18;...