Psalms 88:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ”

Psalms 88:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Free among the dead - Luther renders this, “I lie forgotten among the dead.” DeWette renders it, “Pertaining to the dead - (den Todten angehorend) - stricken down, like the slain, I lie in the gr...
Psalms 88:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(c) Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy (d) hand. (c) For he who is dead is free from all cares and business of th...
Psalms 88:5 - 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 88:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Free . Set free: i.e. by death, so as to be free from the Law (according to the Talmud, Shabbath, vol. 151. B). the grave . sepulchre. Hebrew. keber. See App-35.
Psalms 88:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 Free among the dead, lie the slain who lie in the grave. The prophet intended to express something more distressing and grievous than common death. First, he says, that he was free among...
Psalms 88:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Free among the dead - במתים צפשי bammethim chophshi, I rather think, mean...
Psalms 88:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am as a man that hath no strength— I am become as a man that hath no substance: [A mere shadow without solidity.] Psalms 88:5 . Set loose among the dead: [Set at liberty, as it were, from un...
Psalms 88:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Free among the dead - i:e., severed from thy service. Compare as...
Psalms 88:5 - 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 88:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Free among the dead... — So the old versions without exception, taking chaphshî as an adjective, as in Job 3:19 (where used of an emancipated slave ); 1 Samuel 17:25 ( free from public burde...
Psalms 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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?...
Psalms 88:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘FREE AMONG THE DEAD’ ‘Free among the dead.’ Psalms 88:5 The freedom of which the author of this psalm writes so despairingly must have been, for him at least, a freedom of isolation, of solit...
Psalms 88:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Free among the dead ,.... If he was a freeman, it was only among the dead, not among the living; if he was free of any city, it was of the city of the dead; he looked upon himself as a dead man, as...
Psalms 88:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Ver. 5. Free among the dead ] Free of that company, one of the many am...
Psalms 88:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Free among the dead Well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered, as a member, into the society of the dead; or, removed from all the affairs and conversation of men as if...
Psalms 88:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Lean...
Psalms 88:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Free among the dead; well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered es a member into the society of the dead; as Israelitish servants, when they were made flee, were thereby...
Psalms 88:5 - 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 88:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:5 The freedom of which the author of this Psalm writes so despairingly must have been, for him at least, a freedom of isolation, of solitariness, of exile and expulsion, rather than of r...
Psalms 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - 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 88:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 32:18-32 ; Genesis 19:29 ; Genesis 8:1 ; Isaiah 14:9-12 ; Isaiah 38:10-12 ; Isaiah 53:8 ; Job 11:10 ; Job 6:9 ; Psalms 136:23 ; Psalms 31:22 ; Psalms 88:16
Psalms 88:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Free — Well nigh discharged from the warfare of the present life, and entered as a member into the society of the dead. Whom — Thou seemest to neglect and bury in oblivion.

Psalms 88:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 88:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes