#Psalm 88

[xvermingirlx]

Another thing I feel so right about reading in the Tanakh...

Psalm 88 is a desperate cry, and I almost cried reading it...

Its a shame this Psalm doesn't get talked about a lot. It's incredible in how bleak and sorrowful it is...

I call out to G-d often wondering if my words are ever even heard. And to know that this Psalm, which is exactly how I've felt, is even here in the first place feels so comforting...

#judaism #sorrow #despair #psalms #psalm 88 #suffering #vent #bleak #torah study

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician."On Mahalath, to make humble."

A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite.

1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.

2 Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry,

3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near the grave.

4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a feeble man with no strength;

5 Set apart among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.

6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

8 You have put my acquaintance far away from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 My eyes mourn because of affliction; O LORD, daily I have called upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

10 Will You show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.

11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But to You I have cried, O LORD; and in the morning my prayer shall come before You.

14 O LORD, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

15 From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death; I have suffered Your terrors and am in despair.

16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.

17 They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together all around me.

18 You have taken lover and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness. — Psalm 88 | A Faithful Version (AFV) Holy Bible, A Faithful Version © 2020 A Faithful Version. All Rights Reserved. Cross References: 1 Kings 4:31; 2 Chronicles 28:11; Job 3:23; Job 10:21; Job 11:13; Job 13:24; Job 17:1; Job 19:13; Job 26:5; Job 29:12; Job 30:11; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 6:7; Psalm 13:1; Psalm 17:1; Psalm 17:6; Psalm 17:11; Psalm 22:11; Psalm 31:12; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 39:10; Psalm 69:15; Psalm 74:20; Psalm 88:6; Psalm 88:10; Psalm 119:147; Psalm 142:4; Proverbs 24:11; Isaiah 50:4; Isaiah 51:18; Lamentations 1:12; Jeremiah 17:17; Luke 18:7; Luke 21:20; Revelation 9:11

#suffering #darkness #life #experiences #loss #existence #Psalm 88 #Book of Psalms #Old Testament #AFV #A Faithful Version Bible

[brucedinsman]

The Treasury of David

Buy it for your Kindle Psalm 88 ExpositionExplanatory Notes and Quaint SayingsHints to the Village Preacher 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 be called by a name that denotes a song of praise or triumph, yet perhaps it was intentionally so-called to show how faith “glories in tribulations also.”…

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#2024 #C.H.Spurgeon #Daily Service 4 #Psalm 88 #sing Psalm #Treasury of David

[s-o-a-p-ing]

PSALMS S.O.A.P. ~ PSALM 88

Monday, 11/20/23

SCRIPTURE:

Do You work wonders for the dead?  Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah  ~ Psalm 88:10 

OBSERVATION:

He does... 

I was dead and He worked the wonder of Jesus for me...

Departed spirits do - and will - rise up to praise Him...

Selah - Stop and listen... 

APPLICATION:

Live in wonder...

Rise up to praise Him...

Stop and listen... 

PRAYER: (Tying in a personalized version of verse 14)

Father God - Forgive when I reject Your will even for a moment, and for trying to hide my face from You... May Your Holy Spirit continue to encourage me to rise up and praise You for Your grace and gift of Jesus... In His Name, and for Your honor...

Thankfully living in the wonder of Him...

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#Psalms #Psalm 88 #Wonders #Raise up

[martyschoenleber]

Get Me Out of Here

Another offering for “The Poetry Project” Read Psalm 88 Get Me Out of Here “Get me out of here” is all my heart wanted to say.I was surrounded.The mockers were many.Friends were few.Words were vicious.Every thought took me deeper into troubles.Every memory deeper into depression.Like one walking among the dead,Like one unremembered even by You,I’m there again, Lord.Everything in me wants to…

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#dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1887 #Poetry #Psalm 88 #The Poetry Project

[carltonblaylock]

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

Crying from Deepest Affliction Psalm 88:1-18 A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” a Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite. 1O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. 2Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry. 3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave. 4I am counted…

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#Affliction #Crying #Deepest #Psalm 88

[wiirocku]

Psalm 88:1-2 (NKJV) - O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.

#Psalm 88:1-2 #LORD #God #my #salvation #I have #cried out #day #night #before You #prayer #come

[granonine]

CAPH

Psalm 119:81-88 My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word. Mine eyes fail for Thy Word, saying, When wilt Thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget Thy statutes. How many are the days of Thy servant? when wilt Thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after Thy law. All Thy…

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#a bottle in the smoke #Caph #cracked and dried out #God&039;s Word and prayer #leaking its contents #many biblical characters experienced depression #Psalm 119:81-88 #sometimes we feel just like that #sometimes we need to seek medical help #useless #wineskin

[tom4jc]

Psalm 88:3-4 Feeling Hopeless

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave. I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength, Psalm 88:3-4 There are often days in which a person feels as if the days are nothing but trouble and that there is no longer any hope. No matter where a person looks, there is trouble and pain. All that appears to be left is death. During…

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#Death #grave #hope in Jesus #No Hope #Pain #Psalm 88:3-4 #strength in God #Suffering #Troubles #Weak

[dimsilver]

do you ever get emotional about how the writer of Psalm 88 almost certainly meant these verses as rhetorical questions:

“Will You work wonders for the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise You? Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction? Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”

and Jesus said yes.

#lent playlist thoughts #just!!!!!

[grandsouldream]

Readings for 18 June

18/06/2022

#You cannot serve God and mammon #2nd book of Chronicles 24 #2nd book of Chronicles #Psalms 89(88) #Psalms #Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 6 #Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew #Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407) #God #Lord #Jesus #Holy Spirit #love #hope #heaven #life #peace

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Vanessa Le | Psalm 88 is the darkest Psalm in the Book of Psalms. The LORD is only mentioned in three different places; once in a prayer of belief: “LORD, God of my salvation … incline Your ear to my cry” (vs. 1-2), and twice in an urgent plea for rescue which has gone unheard: “LORD, I have called daily upon You...

#Gentle Reformation #Vanessa Le #My Only Friend Is Darkness #death #Psalm 88 #gentlereformation.com

[brucedinsman]

The Treasury of David

Buy it for your Kindle Psalm 88 ExpositionExplanatory Notes and Quaint SayingsHints to the Village Preacher 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 be called by a name that denotes a song of praise or triumph, yet perhaps it was intentionally so-called to show how faith “glories in tribulations also.”…

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#2024 #C.H.Spurgeon #Daily Service 4 #Psalm 88 #sing Psalm #Treasury of David

[eesirachs]

Anon who asked about the suicides here. Unfortunately I'll need the specific locations/texts (of at least two, I think). It's not that I don't believe in you!! I'm just trying to show it to someone

of course-

king saul kills himself via the sword in 1 sam 31. i have posted often about how god sees this death and never gets over it, and that is at least partly why he later incarnates as a non-roman (roman citizens would die by the sword: i think god feared dying as saul did)

sign-acts as self harm: see ezekiel's self-harm sign-acts: isolation in ezek 3:31; immobilization ezek 4:4-8; eating over excrement ezek 4:9; see also jeremiah's self-harm sign-acts: exposure to elements jer 13; auto-yoking in jer 27

elijah praying to die: 1 kngs 19:4; knowing elisha will also end up praying to die: ibid v. 20 ("what have i done to you!?")

tobit praying to die: tobit 3 (sarah also has a prayer for death here)

moses praying to die: numb 11:13

jonah prays to die and then attempts suicide via the elements: jonah 4

psalmist 88 also prays to die and, in fact, enacts a semiotic death (writing from the grave). this is one of two psalms that does not end in resolution with god

samuel asking to be put to rest after already dying: 1 sam 28

many close to god also express, without intention to enact and without real plea, their wanting-to-die: see job (all of it), jeremiah (jer 20), and rebekah (gen 27:46)

there are many more than what my post listed. almost every prophetic sign act is self-harm. and, in the second testament, you have (very famously) the apostle paul saying he struggles with suicidal ideation, as well as the suicide of judas, which lacks any affective response precisely because none suffice. keep in mind that in the ancient world, self harm and auto-death looked like, and meant, very different things than they do today. keep also in mind that in each pericope here, god shares in the wanting-to-die, never answering the plea or condoning or condemning, but holding gently unto the pain

#ask #suicide tw #king zimri and david's man ahithophel also commit suicide but they are not described as hashem's people so its complicated

[martyschoenleber]

18 Verses, 1 Request

Read Psalm 88 Sometimes called the “saddest psalm in the psalter” Psalm 88 is a psalm of deepest despair. But it is despair out of which there is a beam of hope shining brightly in the midst of its gloom. The English Standard editors supply the following heading:  I Cry Out Day and Night Before You The NASB95 editors supply the following title to it: A Petition to be Saved from Death Each group…

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#1 John 5:14-15 #Being Heard by God #Calls to Worship #Depression #John 14:13-14 #John 15:7 #John 3:21-22 #Matthew 7:7-11 #Meditation #Prayer #Psalm 88 #Psalm 88:2 #Revival #Sadness #Worship

[banana-with-a-bow-tie]

I just read something that is making me insane so I need to share it with you. It’s a commentary on the Puritans called Helpful Truth in Past Places. This chapter is about Jonathan Edwards and emotions and how he stressed

the need for believers to recognize that David’s laments which deal with depression or anger or fear were intended to be sung publicly and thus to be instrumental in helping us develop more godly lives. And yet today, the tendency is to only sing praise oriented psalms and neglect the difficulties of the laments. Perhaps this is one cause of the relative shallowness of Christian experience in the western world today. (emphasis mine)

Can you imagine that? Think of hundreds of people, think of your church singing in one voice

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

(Ps 88:9-11)

Or

He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.”

(Lam 3:16-17)

Can you think how cathartic that would be? How unifying? How even in the expression of our suffering there is relief, especially when we bearing it’s burden together and bringing it before the Lord?

“b-but we can’t praise God by singing about how sad we are.”

WRONG. Go to the throne room of heaven and see what is proclaimed there

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (Rev 6:9-10)

Do you want to know why it is so good and God glorifying to go before God with our questions and burdens? Because of what it says in verse 11, “Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer. . .” God comes to us in our suffering! He answers! When we go to Him with our sorrows He gets to be our Comforter! 

He clothes us in righteousness and honor and helps us to rest a little longer! God doesn’t want a bunch of worshipers who can only express vague ephemeral happiness in response to Him. We were meant to glorify Him with all feelings. We are giving Him less than He deserves by not bearing our souls to Him with all its burdens and failings.