Psalms 88:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. ”

Psalms 88:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But unto thee have I cried, O Lord - I have earnestly prayed; I have sought thy gracious interposition. And in the morning - That is, each morning; every day. My first business in the morning...
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

prevent . come before.
Psalms 88:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Shall my prayer prevent thee - It shall get before thee; I will not wait till the accustomed time to offer my morn...
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. But - notwithstanding these considerations, which would naturally create hope of relief, I cry in vain....
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But unto Thee ... — Better, But as for me, I, &c. The pronoun is emphatic. The speaker has not gone down to the land where all is silent and forgotten, and can therefore still cry to God, a...
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is a great degree of earnestness in the sorrows, again repeated, through these verses. Jesus, from the moment of his birth to the cross, sanctified and set apart as he was, a Nazarite from the...
Psalms 88:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ,.... Formerly, and had been heard, answered, and relieved, and which was an encouragement to cry again to him in his distress; Christ was always heard, John 11:4...
Psalms 88:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Ver. 13. But unto thee have I cried ] Oh, condescend to thy poor crying creature in extremity. In the mornin...
Psalms 88:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In the morning shall my prayer prevent thee That is, shall be offered to thee early, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun. The sens...
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Early, come to thee, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun. The sense is, Though I have hitherto got no answer to my prayers, yet...
Psalms 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - 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 88:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 1:35 ; Psalms 119:147 ; Psalms 119:148 ; Psalms 21:3 ; Psalms 5:3
Psalms 88:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Prevent — Come to thee before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun.

Psalms 88:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 88:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes