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<p id="Chapter88" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 88
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<p id="Ps88_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',88,'1-18');">Psa 88:1-18</a>.
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<p><i>Upon Mahalath</i>—either an instrument, as a lute, to be used as an accompaniment (<i>Leannoth,</i> "for singing") or, as others think, an enigmatic title (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa005.html#Ps5_1">Psa 5:1</a>, JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa022.html#Ps22_1">Psa 22:1</a>, and JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa045.html#Ps45_1">Psa 45:1</a>, titles), denoting the subject—that is, "sickness or disease, for humbling," the idea of spiritual maladies being often represented by disease (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',6,5,6);">Psa 6:5-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,14,15);"> 22:14-15</a>, etc.). On the other terms, see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa042.html#Ps42_1">Psa 42:1</a> and JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa032.html#Ps32_1">Psa 32:1</a>. Heman and Ethan (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa089.html#Ps89_1">Psa 89:1</a>, title) were David's singers (<a onclick="return mV('1Ch',6,18, 33);">1Ch 6:18, 33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ch',15,17);">15:17</a>), of the family of Kohath. If the persons alluded to (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',4,31);">1Ki 4:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ch',2,6);">1Ch 2:6</a>), they were probably adopted into the tribe of Judah. Though called a song, which usually implies joy (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',83,1);">Psa 83:1</a>), both the style and matter of the Psalm are very despondent; yet the appeals to God evince faith, and we may suppose that the word "song" might be extended to such compositions.
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<p><b>1, 2.</b> Compare on the terms used, <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,2);">Psa 22:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,2);">31:2</a>.
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<p id="Ps88_3"><b>3. grave</b>—literally, "hell" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',16,10);">Psa 16:10</a>), death in wide sense.
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<p id="Ps88_4"><b>4. go...pit</b>—of destruction (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',28,1);">Psa 28:1</a>).
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<br><br><b>as a man</b>—literally, "a stout man," whose strength is utterly gone.
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<p id="Ps88_5"><b>5. Free...dead</b>—Cut off from God's care, as are the slain, who, falling under His wrath, are left, no longer sustained by His hand.
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<p id="Ps88_6"><b>6.</b> Similar figures for distress in <a onclick="return mV('Psa',63,9);">Psa 63:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,3);">69:3</a>.
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<p id="Ps88_7"><b>7.</b> Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,2);">Psa 38:2</a>, on first, and <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Psa',42,7);">Psa 42:7</a>, on last clause.
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<p id="Ps88_8"><b>8.</b> Both cut off from sympathy and made hateful to friends (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,11);">Psa 31:11</a>).
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<p id="Ps88_9"><b>9. Mine eye mourneth</b>—literally, "decays," or fails, denoting exhaustion (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',6,7);">Psa 6:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,9);">31:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>I...called</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',86,5,7);">Psa 86:5, 7</a>).
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<br><br><b>stretched out</b>—for help (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',44,20);">Psa 44:20</a>).
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<p id="Ps88_10"><b>10. shall the dead</b>—the remains of ghosts.
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<br><br><b>arise</b>—literally, "rise up," that is, as dead persons.
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<p id="Ps88_11"><b>11, 12.</b> amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as <a onclick="return mV('Psa',6,5);">Psa 6:5</a>) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.
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<p id="Ps88_13"><b>13. prevent</b>—meet—that is, he will diligently come before God for help (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,41);">Psa 18:41</a>).
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<p id="Ps88_14"><b>14.</b> On the terms (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',27,9);">Psa 27:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',74,1);">74:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',77,7);">77:7</a>).
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<p id="Ps88_15"><b>15. from...youth up</b>—all my life.
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<p id="Ps88_16"><b>16, 17.</b> the extremes of anguish and despair are depicted.
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<p id="Ps88_18"><b>18. into darkness</b>—Better omit "into"—"mine acquaintances (are) darkness," the gloom of death, etc. (<a onclick="return mV('Job',17,13,14);">Job 17:13-14</a>).
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