{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa088.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa088.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nCompare on the terms used, Psa 22:2; Psa 31:2.\ngrave--literally, \"hell\" (Psa 16:10), death in wide sense.\ngo . . . pit--of destruction (Psa 28:1).\nas a man--literally, \"a stout man,\" whose strength is utterly gone.\nFree . . . dead--Cut off from God's care, as are the slain, who, falling under His wrath, are left, no longer sustained by His hand.\nSimilar figures for distress in Psa 63:9; Psa 69:3.\nCompare Psa 38:2, on first, and Psa 42:7, on last clause.\nBoth cut off from sympathy and made hateful to friends (Psa 31:11).\nMine eye mourneth--literally, \"decays,\" or fails, denoting exhaustion (Psa 6:7; Psa 31:9).\nI . . . called-- (Psa 86:5, Psa 86:7).\nstretched out--for help (Psa 44:20).\nshall the dead--the remains of ghosts.\narise--literally, \"rise up,\" that is, as dead persons.\namplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Psa 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.\nprevent--meet--that is, he will diligently come before God for help (Psa 18:41).\nOn the terms (Psa 27:9; Psa 74:1; Psa 77:7).\nfrom . . . youth up--all my life.\nthe extremes of anguish and despair are depicted.\ninto darkness--Better omit \"into\"--\"mine acquaintances (are) darkness,\" the gloom of death, &c. (Job 17:13-14).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the...","type":"page"}