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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psalms 88:7 . Thy terrors have cut me off - That is, I am as one already dead; I am so nea...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
over me. Same word as "upon me", Psalms 88:7 .
DISCOURSE: 647 DISTRESS OF SOUL CONSIDERED Psalms 88:14-16 . Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicte...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - It is a mighty flood by which I am overwhelmed.
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy terrors have cut me off - the same Hebrew ( tsimtuwtuniy ( H6789 )) as i...
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...
Have cut me off. — Or, extinguished me. The form of the verb is very peculiar, and is variously explained. All that is certain is that it is inte...
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...
There is a great degree of earnestness in the sorrows, again repeated, through these verses. Jesus, from the moment of his birth to the cross, sancti...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ,.... Or "wraths" h, burning wrath; the whole of divine wrath, in all its fierceness, due to the sins of his people:...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath, &c. ] As rivers of brimstone. Have cut me off ] Mu...
In the morning shall my prayer prevent thee That is, shall be offered to thee early, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or before the dawn...
Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the d...
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...
Psalms 88:15-16 What is it that the psalmist declares of himself in these words but that God's judgments have always and habitually possessed his...
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...
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...
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me, the billows of God's wrath submerging him; Thy terrors have cut me off, thereby crushing him.
Daniel 9:26 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Isaiah 53:4-6 ; Isaiah 53:8 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 38:1 ; Psalms 38:2 ; Psalms 89:46 ; Psalms 90:11 ; Psal...
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.