Psalms 88:1
A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth upon Malath Leannoth. O Lord God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
In Context
2Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine eare vnto my cry.
Cross References
Genesis 49:18O Lord, I haue waited for thy saluation.
1 Kings 5:11And Salomon gaue Hiram twentie thousand measures of wheate for foode to his householde, and twentie measures of beaten oyle. Thus much gaue Salomon to Hiram yere by yere.
1 Chronicles 6:18And the sonnes of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron and Vzziel.
Psalms 22:2O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
Psalms 27:1A Psalme of David. The Lord is my light and my saluation, whom shall I feare? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whome shall I be afraide?
Psalms 42:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. As the harte brayeth for the riuers of water, so panteth my soule 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 →