Psalms 88:7
What meaning of the psalms 88:7 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 88:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah."
What does Psalms 88:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah."
Verse Psalms 88:7. _THOU HAST AFFLICTED_ ME _WITH ALL THY WAVES._] The figures in this verse seem to be taken from a tempest at sea. The storm is fierce, and the waves cover the ship....
THY WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME - Presses me down; burdens me. The meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pressed...
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...
UPON ME. Same word as "over me", Psalms 88:16, with which the member corresponds. SELAH. Connecting Psalms 88:6 with its amplification in verses: Psalms 88:8; Psalms 88:9....
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...
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. THY WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME - as a heavy burden (Psalms 38:3). THOU HAST AFFLICTED (ME) WITH ALL THY WAVES. S...
88:7 waves. (k-15) Strictly, 'breakers,' as Psalms 42:7 ....
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...
AND THOU HAST AFFLICTED. — Literally, _And thou hast pressed_ (_me_)_ down with all thy breakers,_ supplying the object, and taking the accusative in the text as the instrument, as in Psalms 102:23, w...
_[Psalms 88:8]_ עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְ כָל ־מִ֝שְׁבָּרֶ֗יךָ עִנִּ֥יתָ 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...
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy (e) waves. Selah. (e) The storms of your wrath have overwhelmed me....
_Sons. Angels (Calmet) to God the Son. None is like him. (St. Jerome) --- Lucifer fell by aiming at it. I will be like to the Most High, Isaias xiv. 14._...
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?...
Some translate the first clause of the 7th verse, _Thy indignation hath approached upon me; _and the Hebrew word סמך, _samach, _is sometimes to be taken in this sense. But from the scope of the passag...
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...
THE WRATH LIETH HARD UPON ME,.... So some good men apprehend, when they are under afflictive dispensations of Providence, and are left of God, and have not his immediate presence, and the discoveries...
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah. Ver. 7. _Thy wrath lieth hard upon me_] So it did upon David, Psalms 32:3, but especially upon the Son of David,...
_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...
THY WRATH; either, first, the sense of thy wrath; or rather, secondly, the effects of it; as the next clause explains this. WITH ALL THY WAVES; with thy judgments, breaking in furiously upon me like t...
Psalms 88:7 wrath H2534 heavy H5564 (H8804) afflicted H6031 (H8765) waves H4867 Selah H5542 Thy wrath - Psalms 38:1, Psalms 90:7, Psalms 102:10; Job 6:4, Job 10:16;...
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 Peter 2:24; Job 10:16; Job 6:4; John 3:36; Jonah 2:3; Psalms 102:10; Psalms 38:1; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 90:7; Revelation 6:16;...
Waves — With they judgments, breaking in furiously upon me like the waves of the sea....