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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 88

Chapter 88

O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

A. M. cir. 2473. B.C. cir. 1531. (Title.) for. or, of. Mahalath

53:1 *title

Maschil, etc

or, A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite, giving instruction. Supposed to have been written by Heman, son of Zerah, and grandson of Judah, on the oppression of the Hebrews in Egypt.

Heman

1 Kings 4:31 1 Chronicles 2:6

Lord

27:1,9 51:14 62:7 65:5 68:19 79:9 140:7 Genesis 49:18 Isaiah 12:2 Luke 1:47 2:30 Titus 2:10,13 3:4-7

I have

22:2 86:3 Nehemiah 1:6 Isaiah 62:6 Luke 2:37 18:7 1 Thessalonians 3:10 2 Timothy 1:3

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

79:11 141:1,2 1 Kings 8:31 Lamentations 3:8

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

soul

14,15 22:11-21 69:17-21 77:2 143:3,4 Job 6:2-4 Isaiah 53:3,10,11 Lamentations 3:15-19 Matthew 26:37-39 Mark 14:33,34

life

107:18 Job 33:22

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

counted

28:1 30:9 143:7 Job 17:1 Isaiah 38:17,18 Ezekiel 26:20 Jonah 2:6 2 Corinthians 1:9

as a man

31:12 109:22-24 Romans 5:6 2 Corinthians 13:4

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.

Free

Isaiah 14:9-12 38:10-12 Ezekiel 32:18-32

whom

136:23 Genesis 8:1 19:29

cut

16 31:22 Job 6:9 11:10 Isaiah 53:8

from thy hand

or, by thy hand.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

lowest

40:2 86:13 Deuteronomy 32:22

darkness

143:3 Proverbs 4:19 Lamentations 3:2 John 12:46 Jude 1:6,13

deeps

69:15 130:1

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Thy wrath

38:1 90:7 102:10 Job 6:4 10:16 John 3:36 Romans 2:5-9 1 Peter 2:24 Revelation 6:16,17

with

42:7 Jonah 2:3

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

put

18 31:11 143:4 1 Samuel 23:18-20 Job 19:13-19 John 11:57

made

Isaiah 49:7 63:3 Zechariah 11:8 Matthew 27:21-25 John 15:23,24

I am shut

Job 12:14 19:8 Lamentations 3:7-9

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

38:10 42:3 102:9 Job 16:20 17:7 Lamentations 3:48,49 John 11:35

called

1 55:17 86:3

stretched

44:20 68:31 143:6 Ezekiel 17:11 Job 11:13

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Wilt thou

The interrogations in these verses imply the strongest negations.

6:5 30:9 115:17 118:17 Isaiah 38:18,19 Mark 5:35,36

shall

Job 14:7-12 Isaiah 26:19 Ezekiel 37:1-14 Luke 7:12-16 1 Corinthians 15:52-57

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

in destruction

55:23 73:18 Job 21:30 26:6 Proverbs 15:11 Matthew 7:13 Romans 9:22 2 Peter 2:1

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

dark

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

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

and in

5:3 119:147,148 Mark 1:35

prevent thee

"Come before thee;" see on Ps 21:3.

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

Lord

43:2 77:7-9 Matthew 27:46

hidest

13:1 44:24 69:17 Job 13:24

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

afflicted

73:14 Job 17:1,11-16 Isaiah 53:3

while

22:14,15 Job 6:4 7:11-16 Isaiah 53:10 Zechariah 13:7 Luke 22:44

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

fierce

38:1,2 89:46 90:7,11 102:10 Isaiah 53:4-6 Romans 8:32 Galatians 3:13 Revelation 6:17

cut me

Isaiah 53:8 Daniel 9:26

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

They

22:16 42:7 69:1,2 116:3 Job 16:12,13 30:14,15 Lamentations 3:5-7 Matthew 27:39-44

daily

or, all the day.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Lover

8 31:11 38:11 Job 19:12-15

mine acquaintance

A figurative expression to denote that he now never saw them.