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
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
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
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
darkness
143.3 Proverbs 4.19 Lamentations 3.2 John 12.46 Jude 1.6,13
deeps
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
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
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
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
hidest
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
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
mine acquaintance
A figurative expression to denote that he now never saw them.