Job 19:12-15; Psalms 31:11; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 88:8
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me - That is, Thou hast so afflicted me that they have forsaken me. Those who professed to love me, and w...
LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
put far from me. Compare Psalms 88:8 , the corresponding member.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Lover and friend - I have no comfort, and neither friend nor neiph...
And mine acquaintance into darkness— My acquaintance are not to be seen. Literally, My acquaintance a place of darkness; Lost in darkness; vani...
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquain...
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...
And mine acquaintance into darkness. — This is an erroneous rendering. Rather, My acquaintance is darkness, or, darkness is my friend, having t...
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...
REFLECTIONS SHALL I not ponder over the contents of this plaintive Psalm, and reflect on the sad cause of human misery? Day and night may tears run...
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me ,.... This is mentioned in Psalms 88:8 , and is here repeated; and the account is closed with it, to sho...
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness. Ver. 18. Lover and friend, &c. ] See Psalms 88:8 , and mar...
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...
See Poole on " Psalms 88:8 " .
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 88:18 I. Look at the threefold loss bewailed in the text. There are, or ought to be, three circles round every man like the belts or rings...
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...
Lover and friend hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. On sorrow for the death of friends I. The sorrow which we natu...
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...
Lover and friend, all those who formerly were nearest and dearest to him. hast Thou put far from me and mine acquaintance, those whose confidence h...
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.