Mark 1:35; Psalms 119:147; Psalms 119:148; Psalms 21:3; Psalms 5:3
But unto thee have I cried, O Lord - I have earnestly prayed; I have sought thy gracious interposition. And in the morning - That is, each mo...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
prevent . come before.
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Shall my prayer prevent thee - It shall get before thee; I will...
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead— The Psalmist in this, and the following verses, exaggerates his own distress, and the seeming impossibility of...
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. But - notwithstanding these considerations, which would...
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...
Prevent] RV 'come before.
But unto Thee ... — Better, But as for me, I, &c. The pronoun is emphatic. The speaker has not gone down to the land where all is silent an...
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...
But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ,.... Formerly, and had been heard, answered, and relieved, and which was an encouragement to cry again to him in...
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Ver. 13. But unto thee have I cried ] Oh, condescend to thy p...
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...
i.e. Early, come to thee, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun. The sense is, Thoug...
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...
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...
In the morning shall my prayer prevent Thee. Morning devotion As the Oriental traveller sets out for the sultry journey over burning sands by l...
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...
But unto Thee have I cried, O Lord, deliberately shaking off the thoughts of despair which threatened to overwhelm his trust in Jehovah; and in the...
Prevent — Come to thee before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun.
13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.