Psalms 88:1
Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out to you to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
In Context
2Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you for help!
Cross References
Genesis 49:18Then Jacob prayed, “Yahweh, I am waiting for you to rescue me from my enemies.”
1 Kings 5:11Each year Solomon gave Hiram 100,000 bushels of wheat and 110,000 gallons of pure olive oil to feed the people who worked in his palace.
1 Chronicles 6:18Kohath’s sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Psalms 22:2My God, every day I call to you during the daytime and during the night, but you do not answer me, so I am not able to sleep.
Psalms 27:1Yahweh is the one who gives light to my soul/spirit and the one who saves me, so I do not [RHQ] need to be afraid of anyone. Yahweh is the one to whom I go for refuge, so I will never be afraid.
Psalms 42:1Deer pant, desiring to drink water from a stream when there is a drought (OR, when they are being pursued by hunters.) In the same way [SIM], God, I need you very much.
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 →