Psalms 88:3

soul. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13), for emphasis.

the grave. Hebrew. Sheol.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much...
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

3 For my soul is filled with troubles. These words contain the excuse which the prophet pleads for the excess of his grief. They imply that...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. My life draweth nigh unto the grave - Hebrew, 'unto Sheol;' distinc...
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

The grave] RV 'Sheol,' the under-world of the dead. 4 Strength] RV 'help.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Grave. — Sheôl. Here, as in Psalms 6:4-5 ; Psalms 33:19 ; Isaiah 38:10-11 , there comes into prominence the thought that death severs the cove...
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

For my soul is full of troubles ,.... Or "satiated or glutted" e with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusio...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Ver. 3. For my soul is full of trouble ] Hypotyposis hominis luctuosiss...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O Lord God of my salvation Who hast so often saved me in former distresses; I have cried day and night before thee Thus God's own elect are said,...
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

My soul, properly so called; for that he was under great troubles of mind from a sense of God's wrath and departure from him, is evident from Psa...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

grave Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
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...
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 Biblical Illustrator

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Heman: a child of light walking in darkness (with 1 Chronicles 25:5...
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 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

for my soul is full of troubles, filled up, surfeited, with evil, with suffering, and my life, in consequence of these evils, draweth nigh unto th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 53:10 ; Isaiah 53:11 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Job 33:22 ; Job 6:2-4 ; Lamentations 3:15-19 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Matthew 26:37-39 ; Psa...

³ For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:3

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Scofield Reference Notes

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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

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