Salmos 88:1

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

SENHOR, Deus da minha salvao, diante de ti tenho clamado de dia e de noite.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
<Cntico e salmo para os filhos de Cor e para o msico-mor sobre Maalate Leanote; Masquil de Hem, ezrata> SENHOR Deus da minha salvao, diante de ti tenho clamado de dia e de noite.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
SENHOR, Deus da minha salvao, dia e noite clamo diante de ti.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Maschil: etc. or, A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite, giving instruction, Supposed to have been written by Heman, son of Zerah, and grandson of Judah, on the oppression of the Hebrews in Egypt.

Heman: 1 Kings 4:31, 1 Chronicles 2:6

Lord: Psalms 27:1, Psalms 27:9, Psalms 51:14, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 65:5, Psalms 68:19, Psalms 79:9, Psalms 140:7, Genesis 49:18, Isaiah 12:2, Luke 1:47, Luke 2:30, Titus 2:10, Titus 2:13, Titus 3:4-7

I have: Psalms 22:2, Psalms 86:3, Nehemiah 1:6, Isaiah 62:6, Luke 2:37, Luke 18:7, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Timothy 1:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:32 - all the 1 Kings 8:28 - hearken 1 Chronicles 6:33 - Heman 1 Chronicles 25:4 - Heman 2 Chronicles 5:12 - Asaph 2 Chronicles 6:40 - my God Psalms 1:2 - day Psalms 24:5 - God Psalms 25:5 - God Psalms 42:6 - my God Psalms 77:2 - In the Psalms 88:9 - called Psalms 116:2 - therefore Jonah 2:2 - out Matthew 26:38 - My Matthew 26:42 - the second Mark 14:32 - while Luke 22:44 - being Acts 10:2 - and prayed Romans 8:26 - with 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - night Hebrews 5:7 - when 1 Peter 1:11 - the sufferings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord God of my salvation,.... The author both of temporal and spiritual salvation; see Psalms 18:46 from the experience the psalmist had had of the Lord's working salvation for him in times past, he is encouraged to hope that he would appear for him, and help him out of his present distress; his faith was not so low, but that amidst all his darkness and dejection he could look upon the Lord as his God, and the God of salvation to him; so our Lord Jesus Christ, when deserted by his Father, still called him his God, and believed that he would help him, Psalms 22:1.

I have cried day and night before thee, or "in the day I have cried, and in the night before thee"; that is, as the Targum paraphrases it,

"in the night my prayer was before thee.''

prayer being expressed by crying shows the person to be in distress, denotes the earnestness of it, and shows it to be vocal; and it being both in the day and in the night, that it was without ceasing. The same is said by Christ, Psalms 22:2 and is true of him, who in the days of his flesh was frequent in prayer, and especially in the night season, Luke 6:12 and particularly his praying in the garden the night he was betrayed may be here referred to, Matthew 26:38.

a על מחלת לענות "pro infirmitate ad affligendum", so some in Munster; "de miseria ad affligendum", Tigurine version; "de infirmitate affligente", Piscator, so Gussetius, p. 622. b Works, vol. 1. p. 699. c Tractat. Theolog. Politic. c. 10. p. 184. d Apud Meor Enayim, c. 32. p. 106.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord God of my salvation - On whom I depend for salvation; who alone canst save me. Luther renders this, “O God, my Saviour.”

I have cried day and night before thee - literally, “By day I cried; by night before thee;” that is, my prayer is constantly before thee. The meaning is, that there was no intermission to his prayers; he prayed all the while. This does not refer to the general habit of his life, but to the time of his sickness. He had prayed most earnestly and constantly that he might be delivered from sickness and from the dangers of death. He had, as yet, obtained no answer, and he now pours out, and records, a more earnest petition to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM LXXXVIII

The earnest prayer of a person in deep distress, abandoned by

his friends and neighbours, and apparently forsaken of God,

1-18.

NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVIII

Perhaps the title of this Psalm, which is difficult enough, might be thus translated: "A Poem to be sung to the conqueror, by the sons of Korah, responsively, in behalf of a distressed person; to give instruction to Heman the Ezrahite." Kennicott says this Psalm has three titles, but the last only belongs to it; and supposes it to be the prayer of a person shut up in a separate house, because of the leprosy, who seems to have been in the last stages of that distemper; this disease, under the Mosaic dispensation, being supposed to come from the immediate stroke of God. Calmet supposes it to refer to the captivity; the Israelitish nation being represented here under the figure of a person greatly afflicted through the whole course of his life. By some Heman is supposed to have been the author; but who he was is not easy to be determined. Heman and Ethan whose names are separately prefixed to this and the following Psalm, are mentioned as the grandsons of Judah by his daughter-in-law Tamar, 1 Chronicles 2:6, for they were the sons of Zerah, his immediate son by the above. "And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bare him Pharez and Zerah," 1 Chronicles 2:4. "And the sons of Zerah Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, (or Darda,") 1 Chronicles 2:6. If these were the same persons mentioned 1 Kings 4:31, they were eminent in wisdom; for it is there said that Solomon's wisdom "excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol," 1 Kings 4:30-31. Probably Zerah was also called Mahol. If the Psalms in question were written by these men, they are the oldest poetical compositions extant; and the most ancient part of Divine revelation, as these persons lived at least one hundred and seventy years before Moses. This may be true of the seventy-eighth Psalm; but certainly not of the following, as it speaks of transactions that took place long afterwards, at least as late as the days of David, who is particularly mentioned in it. Were we sure of Heman as the author, there would be no difficulty in applying the whole of the Psalm to the state of the Hebrews in Egypt, persecuted and oppressed by Pharaoh. But to seek or labour to reconcile matters contained in the titles to the Psalms, is treating them with too much respect, as many of them are wrongly placed, and none of them Divinely inspired.

Verse Psalms 88:1. O Lord God of my salvation — This is only the continuation of prayers and supplications already often sent up to the throne of grace.