Psalms 88:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. ”

Psalms 88:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me - The same ground of complaint, or expression of the depth of affliction, occurs elsewhere, Psalms 31:11 ; Psalms 38:11 ; Psalms 69:8 . See als...
Psalms 88:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou hast put away mine (f) acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: (g) [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth. (f) He attributes the loss and displeasure of his frien...
Psalms 88:8 - 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 88:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 Thou hast removed my acquaintances from me. He was now destitute of all human aid, and that also he attributes to the anger of God, in whose power it is either to bend the hearts of men...
Psalms 88:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Thou hast made me an abonmination - This verse has been supposed...
Psalms 88:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am shut up, and I cannot come forth— This is the description of a person confined for leprosy, which causes him to be avoided, as a subject of abhorrence even to all his friends.
Psalms 88:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me. So Job...
Psalms 88:8 - 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 88:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I am shut up. — Not necessarily an actual imprisonment or incarceration on account of leprosy, but another figurative way of describing great trouble. Job 19:8 seems to have been before the poet....
Psalms 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me ,.... His familiar friends, who were well known to him, and he to them: it is a mercy and privilege to have good acquaintance, and hearty faithful fr...
Psalms 88:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth. Ver. 8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance, &c. ] Job a...
Psalms 88:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me I can have no more familiarity or intercourse with my friends than if I were in another world; for thy providence hath removed, or rendered them inc...
Psalms 88:8 - 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 88:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am so sad a spectacle of thy vengeance that my friends avoid and detest me, lest by conversing with me they should either be filled with terrors, which men naturally abhor, or be made partakers of...
Psalms 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - 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 88:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 23:18-20 ; Isaiah 49:7 ; Isaiah 63:3 ; Job 12:14 ; Job 19:13-19 ; Job 19:8 ; John 11:57 ; John 15:23 ; John 15:24 ; Lamentations 3:7-9 ; Matthew 27:21-25 ; Psalms 143:4 ; Psalms...

Psalms 88:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 88:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 88:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 88:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 88:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 88:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 88:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge