Psalms 88:1
O Yahweh, God of my salvation, By day, have I made outcry, In the night, [also] before thee.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 into thy presence, Bow down thine ear to my loud cry.
Cross References
Genesis 49:18For thy salvation, have I waited O Yahweh!
1 Kings 5:11and, Solomon, gave unto Hiram, twenty thousand measures of wheat, as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil,—thus, used Solomon on to give unto Hiram, year by year.
1 Chronicles 6:18And, the sons of Kohath, were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
Psalms 22:2My God! I keep crying—By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.
Psalms 27:1Yahweh, is my light and my salvation, Of whom shall I be afraid? Yahweh, is the refuge of my life, Of whom shall I be in dread?
Psalms 42:1As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for 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 →