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The Book of PsalmsChapter 88Chapter Overview: This is the most melancholy of all the psalms: it is all lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Here we h...
Overview - Psalms 38 1?David moves God to take compassion on his pitiful case. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 38:1??(King James Version)O LORD,...
Sheol [N] [E] Old Testament. The Hebrew word seol [l/a.v], Sheol, refers to the grave or the abode of the dead ( Psalms 88:3 Psalms 88:5 ). Through ...
Overview - Psalms 88 1?A prayer containing a grievous complaint. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 88:1??(King James Version)O LORD God of my salv...
Chapter 8888:1 A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath a Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of m...
Mahalath Leannoth MaschilThis word leannoth seems to point to some kind of instrument unknown ( Psalms 88 , title). The whole phrase has by others bee...
?EXPOSITION Verse 17. They came round about me daily like water. My troubles, and thy chastisement poured in upon me, penetrating everywhere, and drow...
Mahalath, [N] [E]the title of p, 53, and Mahalath-leannoth, the title of Ps. 88. The meaning of these words is uncertain. The conjecture is that maha...
PSALM 88 Psalms 88:1-18 . Upon Mahalath--either an instrument, as a lute, to be used as an accompaniment (Leannoth, for singing) or, as other...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 88\\ \\\\. Of the word maalath, \\see Gill on Ps 53:1\\. Leannoth signifies to answer. Perhaps this song was to be sung alte...
PSALM 88 OVERVIEW. Title. -- A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah. This sad complaint reads very little like a Song, nor can we conceive how it could...
?EXPOSITION Verse 88. Quicken me after thy loving kindness. Most wise, most blessed prayer! If we are revived in our own personal piety we shall be ou...
Pit [N] [E] [S]The Old Testament. Pit denotes a large hole in the ground. Pits were used to catch wild animals ( Eze 19:1-8 ) or to collect water for ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 53\\ \\\\. The word mahalath is only used here and in \\#Ps 88:1\\. Some, with Aben Ezra, take it to be the first word of a ...
Abaddon [N] [E] [H] [S]In the Book of Revelation ( 9:1-11 ), when John sees his vision of the fifth trumpet blowing, a vast horde of demonic horsemen...
PSALM 143 Psalms 143:1-12 . In structure and style, like the preceding (Psalms 104-142), this Psalm is clearly evinced to be David's. It is a...
Psalms 88:10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? &c.] The Lord does show wonders to some that are spiritually dead, dead in Adam, dead in law, dead in...
Chapter 88:1? O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 1 Gittith= winepress, and so, of ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Let my prayer come before thee. Admit it to an audience; let it speak with thee. Though it be my prayer, and therefore very imper...