Job 13:24; Matthew 27:46; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 43:2; Psalms 44:24; Psalms 69:17; Psalms 77:7-9
Lord, why castest thou off my soul? - Why dost thou forsake or abandon me? Why is it that thou dost not interpose, since thou hast all power, and...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
face. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
14. Wherefore, O Jehovah! wilt thou reject my soul? These lamentations at first sight would seem to indicate a state of mind in which sorrow...
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...
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? Why castest thou off my soul? - Instead of my soul, several of the ancient Ve...
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? -...
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...
Castest thou off. — The idea is that of throwing away something with loathing. (Comp. Psalms 43:2 .)
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...
Lord, why castest thou off my soul ?.... Here begins his prayer, which he determined to present early in the morning, and consists of expostulations...
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me? Ver. 14. Lord, why castest thou off, &c. ] Luther saith of himself, th...
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...
This proceeding seems not to agree with the benignity of thy nature, nor with the manner of thy dealing with thy people.
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...
Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? Divine hiding God sometimes hides Himself in nature that He may reveal Himself in providence; He sometimes hi...
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...
Lord, why castest Thou off my soul? by apparently despising it with loathing. Why hidest Thou thy face from me? as though unwilling to help. Cf Ps...
14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?