Psalms 88:1
{A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite.} Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day [and] in the night before thee.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
In Context
2Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.
Cross References
Genesis 49:18I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Chronicles 6:18And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Jizhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
Psalms 22:2My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
Psalms 27:1{[A Psalm] of David.} Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 42:1{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:1
This psalm is a lamentation, one of the most melancholy of all the psalms; and it does not conclude, as usually the melancholy psalms do, with the least intimation of comfort or joy, but, from first to last, it is mourning and woe. It is not upon a public account that the psalmist here complains (here is no mention of the afflictions of the church), but only upon a personal account, especially trouble of mind, and the grief impressed upon his spirits both by his outward afflictions and by the remembrance of his… Read the whole commentary →