Psalms 88:1
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
King James Version
In Context
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Cross References
Genesis 49:18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Chronicles 6:18And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 42:1As 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 →