Isn't these verses so pretty and expiring?
88:1 O Lord God who delivers me!
By day I cry out
and at night I pray before you.
88:2 Listen to my prayer!
Pay attention to my cry for help!
88:3 For my life is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol.
2007-11-25 10:39:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have all had these low days. The psalmist is pointing out that his prayers go up and up all day and all night. He wants God to pay attention because it appears He (God) is not. But his despair is so deep that he would rather die (enter sheol---the grave) than to go any further. What a heart wrenching prayer this is. It should inspire readers (you and me) to continue to lift our prayers and not be overwhelmed because it is a struggle in this life. But there is hope further through the book. My favorite of which is psalms121---I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord.
The psalmist had many troubled days but he had mountaintop experiences also. Remember---David was a man after God's own heart---and yet he too was a sinner just like I am. I long to know HIM (GOD) as intimately as David knew Him (God.)
Just my opinion---Merry Christmas my friend---and remember---Jesus IS the REASON for the season.
2007-11-26 00:08:17 · answer #1 · answered by oph_chad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalm 88 is just a sad psalm, all the way through! There just seems to be no hope; it's just miserable. When you really are feeling lower than low, and you think there is absolutely no way out, there's no answer, this is it, this is the end, then you can read Psalm 88.
But you come out into the next psalm and you're singing! What the Book of Psalms shows to me is what a faith in God really looks like! He wants relationship with His Creation and like any relationship there are those low or dry points!
2007-11-25 10:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This Psalm is one of the most heart wrenching among the Psalms; where to look for the Lord Jesus Christ? How about verse 1:
"By day I cry out"
comparing ...
"And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? " - Luke 18:7.
2007-11-25 10:46:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
hi! In my community language, the expression "broken in coronary heart" interprets the meaning of a coronary heart that's touched through the affection of God - somebody who reveals/feels his love and is in a position to be led through His Spirit. - i do no longer understand if it reads the comparable in English (sorry approximately that). So, the belief is: while somebody's coronary heart is wakened through the existence/presence/essence of God it is then healed (from e.g. selfishness, shyness, weak point...?) and that guy or woman's hearts wounds are dealt with ( from e.g. solitude, rejection, complexes...)
2016-10-18 03:03:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like it.Thanks for pointing it out.
2007-11-25 10:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Peace! Lotus Flower 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
inspiring, not expiring
2007-11-25 10:43:15 · answer #6 · answered by wickedawesomem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, it's very pretty.
2007-11-25 10:42:27 · answer #7 · answered by ghostwolf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pretty and inspiring.
2007-11-25 10:41:53 · answer #8 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋