Psalms 88:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. ”

Psalms 88:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me - That is, Thou hast so afflicted me that they have forsaken me. Those who professed to love me, and whom I loved - those whom I regarded as my friends,...
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

put far from me. Compare Psalms 88:8 , the corresponding member.
Psalms 88:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Lover and friend - I have no comfort, and neither friend nor neiphbour to sympathize with me. Mine acquaintance int...
Psalms 88:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And mine acquaintance into darkness— My acquaintance are not to be seen. Literally, My acquaintance a place of darkness; Lost in darkness; vanished out of sight. REFLECTIONS.— 1. The prayer...
Psalms 88:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintances into darkness - literally, 'mine acquaintan...
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And mine acquaintance into darkness. — This is an erroneous rendering. Rather, My acquaintance is darkness, or, darkness is my friend, having taken the place of those removed. The feeling resem...
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me ,.... This is mentioned in Psalms 88:8 , and is here repeated; and the account is closed with it, to show that this was a most aggravating circumstance of...
Psalms 88:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness. Ver. 18. Lover and friend, &c. ] See Psalms 88:8 , and mark how mournfully he concludeth; as doth also the C...
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Psalms 88:8 " .
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:18 I. Look at the threefold loss bewailed in the text. There are, or ought to be, three circles round every man like the belts or rings round a planet: love, friendship, and acquaintance...
Psalms 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - 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 88:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:12-15 ; Psalms 31:11 ; Psalms 38:11 ; Psalms 88:8

Psalms 88:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 88:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge