Psalms 88:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. ”

Psalms 88:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me - Presses me down; burdens me. The meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pre...
Psalms 88:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy (e) waves. Selah. (e) The storms of your wrath have overwhelmed me.
Psalms 88:7 - 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 88:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

upon me. Same word as "over me", Psalms 88:16 , with which the member corresponds. Selah. Connecting Psalms 88:6 with its amplification in verses: Psalms 88:8 ; Psalms 88:9 .
Psalms 88:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Some translate the first clause of the 7 verse, Thy indignation hath approached upon me; and the Hebrew word סמך, samach, is sometimes to be taken in this sense. But from the scope of th...
Psalms 88:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves - The figures in this verse seem to be taken from a tempest at sea. The...
Psalms 88:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me - as a heavy burden ( Psalms 38:3-4 ). Thou hast afflicted (me) with all th...
Psalms 88:7 - 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 88:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And thou hast afflicted. — Literally, And thou hast pressed ( me ) down with all thy breakers, supplying the object, and taking the accusative in the text as the instrument, as in Psalms 102:2...
Psalms 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The wrath lieth hard upon me ,.... So some good men apprehend, when they are under afflictive dispensations of Providence, and are left of God, and have not his immediate presence, and the discoveri...
Psalms 88:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah. Ver. 7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me ] So it did upon David, Psalms 32:3 , but especially upon the Son of Dav...
Psalms 88:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit , &c. In hopeless and remediless calamities. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal apprehensions may they have concerning their afflictions,...
Psalms 88:7 - 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 88:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy wrath; either, first, the sense of thy wrath; or rather, secondly, the effects of it; as the next clause explains this. With all thy waves; with thy judgments, breaking in furiously upon me l...
Psalms 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - 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 88:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:24 ; Job 10:16 ; Job 6:4 ; John 3:36 ; Jonah 2:3 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 38:1 ; Psalms 42:7 ; Psalms 90:7 ; Revelation 6:16 ; Revelation 6:17 ; Romans 2:5-9
Psalms 88:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Waves — With they judgments, breaking in furiously upon me like the waves of the sea.

Psalms 88:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 88:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes