Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction - I weep; my eye pours out tears. Perhaps the whole might be translated, “Far away from me hast thou put lover and friend - my acquaintances! 2 Let my prayer come before you; e incline your ear to my cry! Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal thoughts may they have about their afflictions, and such dark conclusion may they make about their end, through the power of melancholy and the weakness of faith. Psalm 88 appears to be one of the saddest and most dismal chapters in the Bible. For the director of music. Beneath all this, there may be true love to God; beyond all this, there may be a bright world to which the sufferer will come, and where he will forever dwell. Scripture Psalm 88 Sort Bible Verse. Psalms 88 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary by Albert Barnes, a dedicated student of the Bible, continues to be very popular even today. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Jesus references Psalm 8:2 when he comes into Jerusalem and the children are singing to him. Psalm 8 Commentary: Psalm 8 is a reflective or meditative psalm. Nothing grieves a child of God so much as losing sight of him; nor is there any thing he so much dreads as God's casting off his soul. 2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. I picture a toddler in God’s arms wrestling, struggling, and complaining—all the while being held. Psalm 8 is a hymn of praise. Commentaries for Psalm Chapter 88 The psalmist pours out his soul to God in lamentation. Oftentimes, blessed Jesus, do we forsake thee; but do not forsake us, O take not thy Holy Spirit from us. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. I am counted with them that go down into the pit - I am so near to death that I may be reckoned already as among the dead. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, for Melech to respond, being nowhere else found. I am distracted with contending feelings, with my pain, and my doubts, and my fears - and I cannot think clearly of anything. Psalm 88 This psalm is a lamentation, one of the most melancholy of all the psalms; and it does not conclude, as usually the melancholy psalms do, with the least intimation of comfort or joy, but, from first to last, it is mourning and woe. The writer expresses feelings of being overwhelmed, cut off, forgotten, grieved, rejected, terrified, and despaired. The question has no reference to the future resurrection. Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 88 and more! See the notes at Psalm 88:8. For You aregreat, and do wondrous things; You alone areGod. 1 A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. On the phrase, “To the chief Musician,” see the notes at the title to Psalm 4:1-8. Psalm 88 is a lament; the poet’s deeply honest and open complaint before God about his situation in life and above all—God’s absence. Probably the psalmist described his own case, yet he leads to Christ. Religion demands the best vigor of the intellect and the calmest state of the heart; and this great subject should be settled in our minds before we are sick - before we are laid on the bed of death. Compare Job 12:14. 8-13). A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Psalm taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. Among the gods there isnone like You, O Lord; Nor are there any workslike Your works. How often are good people constrained to ask this question! Why is it that thou dost not interpose, since thou hast all power, and since thou art a God of mercy? 3 * For I said, “My mercy is established forever; my faithfulness will stand as long as the heavens. The idea is that the dead will be cut off from all the privileges which attend the living on earth; or, that those in the grave cannot contemplate the character and the greatness of God. Whom thou rememberest no more - As if they were forgotten by thee; as if they were no longer the object of thy care. StudyLıght.org. Follow Desiring God on Twitter. The sustaining hope of resurrection, Ps 88:10 (with a solemn pause, "Selah"), Ps 88:11-12. The sentiment here is substantially the same as in Psalm 6:5. This may mean either that they had so turned away that he could not see them, as if they were in the dark; or, that his familiars now - his companions - were dark and dismal objects - gloomy thoughts - sad forebodings. One-third of the psalms are laments. But Psalm 8 is unique in at least two ways. I. But this wise man also suffered greatly. EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: This psalm is a community lament in which the psalmist recounts blessings conferred on the people by the Lord (vv. "Commentary on Psalms 88:4". If the sun be clouded, that darkens the earth; but if the sun should leave the earth, what a dungeon would it be! The Book of Psalms Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET PSALM 88 Psa 88:1-18. Psalm 88. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. See how deep those terrors wounded the psalmist. Psalm 88 is the 88th psalm from the Book of Psalms.According to the title, it is a "psalm of the sons of Korah" as well as a "maskil of Heman the Ezrahite".In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 87 in a slightly different numbering system. Bibliography InformationBarnes, Albert. Compare the notes at 1 Thessalonians 5:23. His trouble is *like the sea. Submitted by admin on Fri, 2007-11-02 16:27. 3 I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. Even the children of God's love may sometimes think themselves children of wrath and no outward trouble can be so hard upon them as that. His whole life was labour and sorrow; he was afflicted as never man was, from his youth up. Such is often the case in sickness; and consequently what we need, to prepare us for sickness, is a strong faith, built on a solid foundation while we are in health; such an intelligent and firm faith that when the hour of sickness shall come we shall have nothing else to do but to believe, and to take the comfort of believing. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 88:1-9 The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. If friends are put far from us by providences, or death, we have reason to look upon it as affliction. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. And mine acquaintance into darkness - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “my acquaintance from my misery.” Luther, “Thou hast caused my friends and neighbors, and my kindred, to separate themselves far from me, on account of such misery.” The literal rendering would be, my acquaintances are darkness. Verse 9 The meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pressed hard on him. saying, “Return, you children of Adam!” b 4 A thousand years in your eyes (2) free, as opposed to a slave or a captive; The word is translated “free” in Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:5, Exodus 21:26-27; Deuteronomy 15:12-13, Deuteronomy 15:18; 1 Samuel 17:25; Job 3:19; Job 39:5; Isaiah 58:6; Jeremiah 34:9-11, Jeremiah 34:14; and at liberty in Jeremiah 34:16. And I cannot come forth - I cannot leave my couch, my room, my house. A Song. Words in boxes are from the Bible. You are here. This is the time of year when many experience a seasonal depression attributed to the fact that the amount of sunlight is declining. Lord, why castest thou off my soul? (a) that the dead could not praise God, or see the wonders of his hand, Psalm 88:10-12; (b) that the faithfulness and loving-kindness of God could not be shown in the grave, Psalm 88:11; (c) that his troubles were deep and overwhelming, for God had cast off his soul, and had hid his face from him; he had been long afflicted; he was distracted with the terrors of God; the fierce wrath of God went over him; lover and friend and acquaintance had been put far from him, Psalm 88:13-18. “Free among the dead”: Expresses the idea that death cuts off all ties to friends and family as well as to God. Free among the dead - Luther renders this, “I lie forgotten among the dead.” DeWette renders it, “Pertaining to the dead - (den Todten angehorend) - stricken down, like the slain, I lie in the grave,” and explains it as meaning, “I am as good as dead.” The word rendered “free” - חפשׁי chophshı̂y - means properly, according to Gesenius (Lexicon). A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Book 1 (Psalms 1 - 41) » Psalms 1-41 in one file [or download in RTF format] ... Psalm 88: Down Among The Dead Men [or download in R TF format] Psalm 89: Make Your Kingdom Come Soon! It means properly. 2 Let my prayer come before you; e incline your ear to my cry! (A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of … I am full of trouble. It is, in this respect, unlike most of the psalms which relate to sickness, to sorrow, to suffering, for in those psalms generally there springs up, in answer to prayer, a gleam of hope - some cheerful view - some sustaining prospect; so that, though a psalm begins in despondency and gloom, it ends with joy and triumph. I see no friends; I see only darkness and gloom. It is heavy and pours over him. (1-9) He wrestles by faith, in his prayer to God for comfort. Even those designed for God's favours, may for a time suffer his terrors. (1-9) He wrestles by faith, in his prayer to God for comfort. 2. Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 88 and more! See Psalm 88:7. Psalm 88:5 "Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand." So the great, the beautiful, and the good lie neglected in the grave. 2:6 Heman the Ezrahite. Psalms 88:5. Psalm 88:1. or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.>> O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 88:1-9 The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Worship in the Dark. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit - That is, I am as if I were thus laid; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly before me, that it may be spoken of as if it were already my abode. According to what is now made known to us of the unseen world it is true that the mercy of God will not be made known to the dead; that the Gospel will not be preached to them; that no messenger from God will convey to them the offers of salvation. the earth and the world brought forth, from eternity to eternity you are God. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 88:10-12 10 Will You perform wonders for the dead? Jul 27, 2014. It dances on the boundary of sanity. But the pleas here used were peculiarly suited to Christ. The study is titled "The Living God and Obedience Prepares a Place for Him to Dwell." Pulpit Commentary: This is the darkest, saddest psalm of all the Psalms. This he expresses in the usual language; but it is evident that he did not admit any comfort into his mind from the idea of freedom in the grave. The writer expresses feelings of being overwhelmed, cut off, forgotten, grieved, rejected, terrified, and despaired. Like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. These bodily sufferings he interpreted, in the sad and gloomy state of mind in which he was, as evidences of the divine displeasure against himself. "Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction" (Psalms 88:9 a). After much thought and study of Psalms 88, the typical commentary appraisal is it is entirely negative, totally given to the expression of grief and despair. STROPHE DIVISIONS OF MODERN TRANSLATIONS. O L ord, God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence, 2. let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to … O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. The whole scene was a sad one, and he was overwhelmed with grief, and saw only the prospect of continued sorrow and gloom. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal thoughts may they have about their afflictions, and such dark conclusion may they make about their end, through the power of melancholy and the weakness of faith. According to the other signification it would refer to affliction, and would be little more than a repetition of the idea implied in the word Mahalath. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. I am distracted - I cannot compose and control my mind; I cannot pursue any settled course of thought; I cannot confine my attention to anyone subject; I cannot reason calmly on the subject of affliction, on the divine government, on the ways of God. They are rendered by the Septuagint and the Vulgate “for Maeleth, to answer;” by Luther, “to sing, of the weakness of the miserable;” by Prof. Alexander, “concerning afflictive sickness.” The word “Mahalath” seems here to be a form of מחלה machăleh which means properly, “sickness, disease.” It is rendered, with a slight variation in the pointing, “disease” in 2 Chronicles 21:15; Exodus 15:26; “infirmity,” in Proverbs 18:14; and “sickness” in Exodus 23:25; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28. “God, I don’t like this. Jonathan Parnell Jul 27, 2014 4.1K Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God Desiring God. Literally, My eye pines away, or decays. In all these places (except in 1 Samuel 17:25, where it refers to a house or family made free, and Job 39:5, where it refers to the freedom of the wild ass), it denotes the freedom of one who had been a servant or slave. And the Book of Psalms would have been incomplete for the use of the church, if there had not been at least one such psalm in the collection. (Spurgeon, C. H. Lectures to my Students: Commenting and Commentaries)Rosscup adds: This is one of the more thorough older exegetical … All have gone, leaving me alone in this condition of unpitied sorrow! The low and humble beach made of shifting sand, where there seems to be no stability, is an effectual barrier against all their rage; as the humble piety of the child of God, apparently without strength to resist calamity, bears all the beatings of affliction, and maintains its place as the heavy waves of sorrow roll upon it. “And thy righteousness.” The justice of thy character; or, the ways in which thou dost maintain and manifest thy righteous character. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. The author is a sufferer; he is expecting to die; he fears to die; he longs to live; his mind is overwhelmed with gloom which does not seem to be irradiated by one ray of hope or consolation. 2 I will sing of your mercy forever, LORD a. proclaim your faithfulness through all ages. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. 3. Selah. Shall the dead see those things which here tend to excite reverence for thee, and which lead people to worship thee? Many a time in this psalm doth David make this petition; and it seems strange that so often he should acknowledge himself a dead man, and desire God to quicken him. But so it is unto the child of God: every desertion and decay of strength is a death. Audio Commentary: Psalm 88 Psalm 88 1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Why dost thou not deliver me from my troubles? The bed of sickness is not the proper place to examine the evidences of religion; it is not the place to make preparation for death; not the proper place to become religious. He seemed unwilling even to look upon the sufferer. But in this psalm there is no relief; there is no comfort. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A Contemplation of # 1 Kin. I Cry Out Day and Night Before You - A Song. A Maskil 1 of b Heman the Ezrahite. Those who professed to love me, and whom I loved - those whom I regarded as my friends, and who seemed to be my friends - are now wholly turned away from me, and I am left to suffer alone. NASB: NKJV: NRSV: TEV: NJB: A Petition to Be Saved From Death MT Intro A Song. on StudyLight.org. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Checking. So the psalmist applies the expression here to himself, as if he had already reached that point; as if it were so certain that he must die that he could speak of it as if it had occurred; as if he were actually in the condition of the dead. The Pharisees tell Jesus that it’s not right for the children to be calling him the Son of David – the coming king. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? Read Psalm 88 commentary using The Treasury of David. They are free from the perils and the toils of life; they are emancipated from its cares and dangers. Why the plural was used as applicable to life cannot now be known with certainty. For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. True (if you haven't already, read it now), it seems to be a picture of un-alleviated misery, seldom found anywhere in the Scriptures. But this psalm begins with the darkness of complaint and ends with resignation and a heavy sigh: “Darkness is my closest friend. Read Psalm 88 commentary using The Treasury of David. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! 1. - Why dost thou not lift up the light of thy countenance upon me, and show me thy favor? This psalm is a lamentation, one of the most melancholy of all the psalms; and it does not conclude, as usually the melancholy psalms do, with the least intimation of comfort or joy, but, from first to last, it is mourning and woe. Those “breakers” seem to be so furious and angry, they rush along with so much impetuosity, they are so mighty, they dash with such fury on the shore, that it seems as if nothing could stand before them. Home » Bible Commentaries » Psalms. From my youth up - That is, for a long time; so long, that the remembrance of it seems to go back to my very childhood. That people without the Gospel ought to dread it, is clear, for when the grave is not illuminated with Christian truth and hope, it is a place from which man by nature shrinks back, and it is not wonderful that a wicked man dreads to die. Nothing is known of the occasion on which the psalm was composed, except, as is probably indicated in the title, that it was in a time of sickness; and from the psalm itself we find that it was when the mind was enveloped in impenetrable darkness, with no comfort. He permitted him to bear his sorrows, unpitied and alone. This weighed him down into darkness and the deep. He complained most of God's displeasure. Bible commentary on the Book of Psalms, chapter 88, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. 1. Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? I am afflicted and ready to die - I am so afflicted - so crushed with sorrow and trouble - that my strength is nearly gone, and I can endure it but a little longer. 88:9 Psalm 88:9 is similar in content to Ps. Thou hast made me an abomination unto them - As something which they would avoid, or from which they would revolt and turn away - as we turn away from the body of a dead man, or from an offensive object. Why hidest thou thy face from me? And we are not to think that the holy Jesus suffered for us only at Gethsemane and on Calvary. Such was the calamitous state of a good man. It is probable that this psalm was designed to illustrate what may occur when disease is such as to produce deep mental darkness and sorrow. To the choirmaster. Worst of all, he is crying … 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and f my life draws near to g Sheol. and crushed him to the earth. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. Scripture: Psalm 88. And in the morning - That is, each morning; every day. PSALM 89 * A Lament over God’s Promise to David. Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Psalm 88:1-18 A Song. Psalm 89 – The Incomparable God and His Covenant to David. Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. All forsook him, and fled. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. It occurs nowhere else except in this verse. (10-18). O L ord, God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence, 2. let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to … 1-3), pleas for salvation (vv. The meaning is, that there was no intermission to his prayers; he prayed all the while. I. Lord, you have been our refuge. They had been cut down, and were forgotten - as if God regarded them no more. He had reached the utmost point of endurance; he had no power to bear anymore. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. 4:31; 1 Chr. How difficult, too, it is to answer the question, and to see why that God who has all power, and who is infinitely benevolent, does not interpose to deliver his people in affliction! A psalm of the Sons of Korah. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. There are many examples of this type of psalm in the book of Psalms (for example, Psalms 93, 136, 150). According to mahalath leannoth. In the land of forgetfulness - Of oblivion; where the memory has decayed, and where the remembrance of former things is blotted out. Werner Bible Commentary "For freedom Christ has freed us" — Galatians 5:1. Psalm 88 is one of the thirteen psalms called A Contemplation, which according to James Montgomery Boice might be better understood as “instruction.” As for the author and singer of the psalm, Heman the Ezrahite, there are many mentions of a Heman in the days of David and Solomon. Psalm 88 Prayer for Help in Despondency. PSALM 90 * God’s Eternity and Human Frailty. All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name. God seemed to turn away from him. Lord, I have called daily upon thee - That is, I have prayed earnestly and long, but I have received no answer. -, They came round about me daily like water -, Lover and friend hast thou put far from me -, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. It treads unashamedly into our darkest emotions. 88 O L ord, c God of my salvation, I d cry out day and night before you. PSALM 88 Translation by Marshall H. Lewis A song. In Job 3:19, it has reference to the grave, and to the fact that the grave delivers a slave or servant from obligation to his master: “And the servant is free from his master.” This is the idea, I apprehend, here. (4) the grave, Psalm 28:1; Psalm 30:4; Isaiah 38:18. They came round about me daily like water - Margin, “as in” Hebrew, all the day. UCG.org / Bible Study Tools / Bible Commentary / Bible Commentary: Psalm 88. A psalm of the sons of Korah. In this case, the author is David, and he’s reflecting on nature. This also describes what happens in the disease of leprosy. - The wonders - or the things suited to excite admiration - which the living behold. "I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to … Compare Isaiah 38:18. Nothing could be a more striking image of wrath. Yet they find a barrier such as we should little expect. Click to Sign Now! 4 I am counted with […] Psalm 88 will most likely not be made into a children’s song one day. The meaning here is, that he was about to die; or that his life or lives approached that state when the grave closes over us; the extinction of the mere animal life; and the separation of the soul - the immortal part - from the body. His soul was full of troubles, and he drew near to the grave, Psalm 88:3; he was, as it were, already dead, and like those laid in the deep grave, whom God had forgotten, Psalm 88:4-6; the wrath of God lay heavily on him, and all his waves went over him, Psalm 88:7; God had put away all his friends from him, and had left him to suffer alone, Psalm 88:8; his eye mourned by reason of his affliction, and he cried daily to God, Psalm 88:9. So we shall all moulder in the grave - in that deep, dark, cold, silent, repulsive abode, as if even God had forgotten us. Gordon Churchyard . It seems to me, therefore, that there is a reference in the word “Leannoth” to something which was said or sung on that occasion; or to something which might be properly said or sung in reference to sickness. Even a good man may be made afraid - may have his mind made sad and sorrowful - by the prospect of dying. This is perhaps the most awful depth of the whole Psalm. 11 Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? In darkness - The dark grave; the realms of the dead. [b] A maskil [c] of Heman the Ezrahite. I am shut up - As in prison; to wit, by disease, as when one is confined to his house. According to Mahalath Leannoth. Verse 88.—"Quicken me." It is a clear and judicious explanation of the text, and cannot be dispensed with. The answer to this question cannot be fully given in this world; there will be an answer furnished doubtless in the future life. Death is freedom; and it is possible to derive solace from that idea of death, as Job did Job 3:19; but the psalmist here, as remarked above, did not so admit that idea into his mind as to be comforted by it. I am as a man that hath no strength - Who has no power to resist disease, no vigor of constitution remaining; who must die. All is darkness!” That is, When I think of any of them, all is darkness, sadness. The psalm is ascribed to “Heman the Ezrahite.” The name Heman occurs in 1 Kings 4:31; 1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Chronicles 6:33; 1 Chronicles 15:17, 1 Chronicles 15:19; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 1 Chronicles 25:1, 1 Chronicles 25:4-6; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 2 Chronicles 29:14; 2 Chronicles 35:15 - usually in connection with Ethan, as among those whom David placed over the music in the services of the sanctuary. I have cried day and night before thee - literally, “By day I cried; by night before thee;” that is, my prayer is constantly before thee. 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