“ Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. ”
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psalms 88:7 . Thy terrors have cut me off - That is, I am as one already dead; I am so near to death that I may be spoken of as dead.
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 )...
over me. Same word as "upon me", Psalms 88:7 .
DISCOURSE: 647 DISTRESS OF SOUL CONSIDERED Psalms 88:14-16 . Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted, and ready to die, from my youth up: while I suf...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - It is a mighty flood by which I am overwhelmed.
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy terrors have cut me off - the same Hebrew ( tsimtuwtuniy ( H6789 )) as in Leviticus 25:23 , where God saith, "the land sh...
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...
Have cut me off. — Or, extinguished me. The form of the verb is very peculiar, and is variously explained. All that is certain is that it is intensive, expressing the hopeless and continued state...
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...
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...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ,.... Or "wraths" h, burning wrath; the whole of divine wrath, in all its fierceness, due to the sins of his people: these, like the mighty waves of the sea, passed ov...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath, &c. ] As rivers of brimstone. Have cut me off ] Multis excisionibus ideoque duplicatur Tau.
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...
Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy...
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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 88:15-16 What is it that the psalmist declares of himself in these words but that God's judgments have always and habitually possessed his mind; that the fear of them has hung like a weight...
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...
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...
Daniel 9:26 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Isaiah 53:4-6 ; Isaiah 53:8 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 38:1 ; Psalms 38:2 ; Psalms 89:46 ; Psalms 90:11 ; Psalms 90:7 ; Revelation 6:17 ; Romans 8:32