Psalms 88:6

Lowest pit. — See Note, Psalms 86:13.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit - That is, I am as if I were thus laid; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly before me, that it may b...
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 tor...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit. The Psalmist now acknowledges more distinctly, that whatever adversities he endured proceeded from th...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness - rather, "in dark places,"...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Pit.. darkness (RV 'dark places').. deeps ] expressions for Sheol.
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...
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...
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 hea...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit ,.... The Targum interprets it of "captivity which was like unto the lowest pit;'' and so Jarchi and Kimchi. S...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Ver. 6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit ] In cisterna infimorum, in the deep...
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 apprehe...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. A song or psalm for the sons of...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Either, first, in the grave; the same thing being expressed in divers words; or, secondly, in hopeless and remediless calamities.
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 Introduc...
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...
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 Chronic...
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...
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 bitte...
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 music...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in the most remote parts of the realm of death, in darkness, in the deeps, for the kingdom of death was suppos...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:22 ; John 12:46 ; Jude 1:13 ; Jude 1:6 ; Lamentations 3:2 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 40:2 ; Psalms 86:13 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalm...

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:6