Psalms 88:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ”

Psalms 88:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in “the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness.” Job 10...
Psalms 88:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land (k) of forgetfulness? (k) That is, in the grave, where only the body lies without all sense and remembrance.
Psalms 88:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 )...
Psalms 88:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? The land of forgetfulness? - The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some n...
Psalms 88:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 88:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the “stretched-out hands.”
Psalms 88:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 88:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 cer...
Psalms 88:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark ?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21 , The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and silent grave, how would the wonders of the grace...
Psalms 88:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Ver. 12. In the land of forgetfulness ] So the state and place of the dead is called; and why: See Trap...
Psalms 88:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy...
Psalms 88:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the dark; in the grave, which is called the land of darkness , Job 10:21,22 . In the land of forgetfulness; in the grave; so called, either, first, Actively, because there men forget and n...
Psalms 88:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 88:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 88:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 88:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 88:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:16 ; Ecclesiastes 8:10 ; Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 10:22 ; Jude 1:13 ; Matthew 8:12 ; Psalms 143:3 ; Psalms 31:12 ; Psalms 88:5
Psalms 88:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Forgetfulness — In the grave, where men are forgotten by their nearest relations.

Psalms 88:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes