“ For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. ”
For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that...
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 )...
soul. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13), for emphasis. the grave. Hebrew. Sheol.
3 For my soul is filled with troubles. These words contain the excuse which the prophet pleads for the excess of his grief. They imply that his continued crying did not proceed from softness...
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. My life draweth nigh unto the grave - Hebrew, 'unto Sheol;' distinct from the Hebrew which is rendered "grave" х qe...
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...
Grave. — Sheôl. Here, as in Psalms 6:4-5 ; Psalms 33:19 ; Isaiah 38:10-11 , there comes into prominence the thought that death severs the covenant relation with God, and so presents an irresis...
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...
It is impossible for a child of God, one should think, to have any doubts as to whom these expressions peculiarly and principally belong. To whom can they so properly belong, as to the blessed Jesus?...
For my soul is full of troubles ,.... Or "satiated or glutted" e with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity...
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Ver. 3. For my soul is full of trouble ] Hypotyposis hominis luctuosissime affecti. Here we have the lively picture of a...
O Lord God of my salvation Who hast so often saved me in former distresses; I have cried day and night before thee Thus God's own elect are said, by Christ, to cry to him, Luke 18:7 ; and thus o...
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Lean...
My soul, properly so called; for that he was under great troubles of mind from a sense of God's wrath and departure from him, is evident from Psalms 88:14-16 .
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...
grave Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
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...
Isaiah 53:10 ; Isaiah 53:11 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Job 33:22 ; Job 6:2-4 ; Lamentations 3:15-19 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Matthew 26:37-39 ; Psalms 107:18 ; Psalms 143:3 ; Psalms 143:4 ; Psal...