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( See Scofield) - (Ecclesiastes 9:10).
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? - The wonders - or the things suited to excite admiration - which the living behold. Shall the dead see those...
Wilt thou shew (i) wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah. (i) He shows that the time is more convenient for God to help...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
dead. Hebrew. Rephaim, who have no resurrection. See note on Isaiah 26:14 , where it is rendered "deceased"; and 19, where it is rendered "the d...
10. Wilt thou perform a miracle for the dead? By these words the prophet intimates, that God, if he did not make haste to succor him, would...
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Wilt thou show wonders to the dead! - מתים methim, dead men. Shal...
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead— The Psalmist in this, and the following verses, exaggerates his own distress, and the seeming impossibility of...
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. -Appeal to God's regard to His own honour as involved in deli...
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...
Shall the dead arise? ... — These words are not to be taken in the sense of a final resurrection as we understand it. The hope of this had hardly y...
(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the “stretched-out hands.”
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...
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...
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 hea...
If I mistake not, the force and beauty of these expressions are intended to confirm the certainty of the things they seem to inquire after. We meet w...
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead ?.... The Lord does show wonders to some that are spiritually dead, dead in Adam, dead in law, dead in trespasses...
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah. Ver. 10. Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? ] Wilt thou delay...
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Namely, in raising them to life again in this world? No: I know thou wilt not. And therefore now hear and help...
Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the d...
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead, to wit, in raising them to live again in this world? as it is in the next clause. I know that thou wilt not. An...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Song or Psalm,” i.e. , combining the properties of both a Psalm and a song. “For the sons of Korah ,” see Introduc...
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...
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 Chronic...
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...
Wilt Thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise Thee? The great problem I. Here is a problem common to humanity. Lived the...
EXPOSITION THE most mournful of all the psalms. After one almost formal "word of trust" ( Psalms 88:1 ), the remainder is a continuous bitte...
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 music...
Wilt Thou show wonders to the dead? That is, Did God intend to wait till He had succumbed to death! Shall the dead arise and praise Thee? That is,...
1 Corinthians 15:52-57 ; Ezekiel 37:1-14 ; Isaiah 26:19 ; Isaiah 38:18 ; Isaiah 38:19 ; Job 14:7-12 ; Luke 7:12-16 ; Mark 5:35 ; Mark 5:36 ;...
Wonders — In raising them to life. To praise thee — In this world?
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.