“ They came round about me dailya like water; they compassed me about together. ”
They came round about me daily like water - Margin, “as in” Hebrew, all the day. That is, his troubles seemed to be like the waves of the sea cohnstantly breaking on the shore. See Psalms 42:7 ....
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 )...
daily . all the day.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. They came round about me daily like water - Besides his spiritual conflicts, he had many enemies to grapple with. The wave...
Like water— "Like floods coming from several places, and at last meeting together to inclose and swallow me up."
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. They came round about me daily like water. "They," i:e., "thy terrors" ( Psalms 88:16 ). They compassed me about...
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...
They — i.e., the terrors or horrors, now likened to a flood, a figure of frequent occurrence. (See Psalms 18:16 , &c.)
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...
They came round about me daily like water ,.... That is, the terrors of the Lord, the sorrows of death and hell, Psalms 18:4 , this was the Messiah's case, when it was with him as is expressed Ps...
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Ver. 17. They compassed me about ] As the water compasseth the earth like a girdle.
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...
As the waters of the sea encompass him which is in the midst and bottom of it.
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...
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...
Job 16:12 ; Job 16:13 ; Job 30:14 ; Job 30:15 ; Lamentations 3:5-7 ; Matthew 27:39-44 ; Psalms 116:3 ; Psalms 22:16 ; Psalms 42:7 ; Psalms 69:1 ; Psalms 69:2
Water — As the waters of the sea encompass him who is in the midst of it.