Psalms 88:12

Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Isaiah 8:22; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Jude 1:13; Matthew 8:12; Psalms 143:3; Psalms 31:12; Psalms 88:5

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in “the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness it...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land (k) of forgetfulness? (k) That is, in the grave, where only the body lies...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? The land of forgetfulness? - The place of separate spirit...
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

(10-12) These verses probably contain the prayer tittered with the “stretched-out hands.”
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In these verses appear three prominent features of the Hebrew conception of the underworld. It is a place of “destruction” (comp. Job 26:6 ; Job 28...
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

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark ?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21 , The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Ver. 12. In the land of forgetfulness ] So the state a...
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

In the dark; in the grave, which is called the land of darkness , Job 10:21,22 . In the land of forgetfulness; in the grave; so called, eithe...
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 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

Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? in the darkness of the realm of death, and Thy righteousness, as He revealed and imparted it to the believe...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Forgetfulness — In the grave, where men are forgotten by their nearest relations.

¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake'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

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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