Psalms 88:6
What meaning of the psalms 88:6 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 88:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."
What does Psalms 88:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."
THOU HAST LAID ME IN THE LOWEST PIT - That is, I am as if I were thus laid; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly before me, that it may be spoken of as if it were already my abode. The words r...
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...
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...
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. THOU HAST LAID ME IN THE LOWEST PIT, IN DARKNESS - rather, "in dark places," as in ; ; . IN THE DEEPS - of Sheol or Hades, 'the lo...
88:6 places, (i-11) Or 'in darkness,' lit. 'darknesses.'...
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...
LOWEST PIT. — See Note, Psalms 86:13....
_[Psalms 88:7]_ שַׁ֭תַּנִי בְּ בֹ֣ור תַּחְתִּיֹּ֑ות בְּ֝ מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים בִּ מְצֹלֹֽות׃...
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...
_Saints. These alone, (Haydock) the heavens or angels, worthily proclaim thy praises. (Haydock) --- Preachers announce the same in the Church, (St. Augustine) "the communion of saints, " as none are f...
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?...
6_Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit. _The Psalmist now acknowledges more distinctly, that whatever adversities he endured proceeded from the Divine hand. Nor indeed will any man sincerely betake him...
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...
THOU HAST LAID ME IN THE LOWEST PIT,.... The Targum interprets it of "captivity which was like unto the lowest pit;'' and so Jarchi and Kimchi. Some understand it of a prison or dungeon, into which...
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Ver. 6. _Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit_] _In cisterna infimorum,_ in the deepest dungeon, _in lutoso lacu,_ such as Jeremiah was...
_Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit_, &c. In hopeless and remediless calamities. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal apprehensions may they have concerning their afflictions, and...
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...
Either, first, in the grave; the same thing being expressed in divers words; or, secondly, in hopeless and remediless calamities....
Psalms 88:6 laid H7896 (H8804) lowest H8482 pit H953 darkness H4285 depths H4688 lowest - Psalms 40:2, Psalms 86:13; Deuteronomy 32:22 darkness - Psalms 143:3; Proverbs 4:19;...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:22; John 12:46; Jude 1:13; Jude 1:6; Lamentations 3:2; Proverbs 4:19; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 86:13; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 143:3;...