“ O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: ”
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 c...
"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:...
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 )...
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 t...
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...
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 thee: O Lord God...
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 לענ...
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Psalms 88:1-18 .-Invocation ( Psalms 88:1-2 ); ground of the prayer, the suppliant's misery even unto death ( Psalms 88:3-9...
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 ), a...
Psalms 88:1-18 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 "weigh...
a Cry from the Waves Psalms 88:1-18 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 despa...
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 th...
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;...
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 pas...
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...
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 o...
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Lean...
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 mor...
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 Chie...
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 o...
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 i...
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...
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 suff...
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 expostula...
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,...
1 Chronicles 2:6 ; 1 Kings 4:31 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:10 ; 2 Timothy 1:3 ; Genesis 49:18 ; Isaiah 12:2 ; Isaiah 62:6 ; Luke 1:47 ; Luke 18:7 ; Luke 2:30 ; Luke 2:37 ; Nehemiah 1:6 ; Psalms...