Psalms 88:10

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; Psalms 115:17; Psalms 118:17; Psalms 30:9; Psalms 6:5

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead— The Psalmist in this, and the following verses, exaggerates his own distress, and the seeming impossibility of...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the “stretched-out hands.”
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

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the d...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
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

dead ( See Scofield) - ( Ecclesiastes 9:10 ).
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

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...
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

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,...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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