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Text -- Psalms 88:12 (NET)

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88:12 Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
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Wesley: Psa 88:12 - -- In the grave, where men are forgotten by their nearest relations.

In the grave, where men are forgotten by their nearest relations.

JFB: Psa 88:11-12 - -- Amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Psa 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.

Amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Psa 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.

Clarke: Psa 88:12 - -- The land of forgetfulness? - The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some notion of this state. They feigned a river...

The land of forgetfulness? - The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some notion of this state. They feigned a river in the invisible world, called Lethe, Ληθη, which signifies oblivion, and that those who drank of it remembered no more any thing relative to their former state

Animae, quibus altera fat

Corpora debentur, lethaei ad fluminis unda

Securos latices et longa oblivia potant

Virg. Aen. 6: 713

To all those souls who round the river wai

New mortal bodies are decreed by fate

To yon dark stream the gliding ghosts repair

And quaff deep draughts of long oblivion there.

TSK: Psa 88:12 - -- dark : Psa 143:3; Job 10:21, Job 10:22; Isa 8:22; Mat 8:12; Jud 1:13 in the land : Psa 88:5, Psa 31:12; Ecc 2:16, Ecc 8:10, Ecc 9:5

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Psa 88:12 - -- Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in "the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness ...

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in "the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness."Job 10:21-22. "And thy righteousness."The justice of thy character; or, the ways in which thou dost maintain and manifest thy righteous character.

In the land of forgetfulness - Of oblivion; where the memory has decayed, and where the remembrance of former things is blotted out. This is a part of the general description, illustrating the ideas then entertained of the state of the dead; that they would be weak and feeble; that they could see nothing; that even the memory would fail, and the recollection of former things pass from the mind. All these are images of the grave as it appears to man when he has not the clear and full light of revelation; and the grave is all this - a dark and cheerless abode - all abode of fearfulness and gloom - when the light of the great truths of the Gospel is not suffered to fall upon it. That the psalmist dreaded this is clear, for he had not yet the full light of revealed truth in regard to the grave, and it seemed to him to be a gloomy abode. That people without the Gospel ought to dread it, is clear, for when the grave is not illuminated with Christian truth and hope, it is a place from which man by nature shrinks back, and it is not wonderful that a wicked man dreads to die.

Poole: Psa 88:12 - -- In the dark in the grave, which is called the land of darkness , Job 10:21,22 . In the land of forgetfulness in the grave; so called, either, firs...

In the dark in the grave, which is called the land of darkness , Job 10:21,22 .

In the land of forgetfulness in the grave; so called, either, first, Actively, because there men forget and neglect all the concerns of this life, being indeed but dead carcasses without any sense or remembrance. Or rather, secondly, Passively, because there men are forgotten not only by men, as is noted, Job 24:20 Psa 31:12 , but by God himself, as he complained, Psa 88:5 .

Gill: Psa 88:12 - -- Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21, The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and sile...

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21, The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and silent grave, how would the wonders of the grace of God, of electing, redeeming, justifying, pardoning, and adopting grace, be made known; the wonders of Christ's person and offices, and the wondrous things, and doctrines of the Gospel, relating thereunto? as the glory of these would be eclipsed, there would be none to publish them:

and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? the grave, where the dead lie, who, having lost all sense of things, forget what were done in this world, and they themselves are quickly forgotten by the living; and had Christ continued in this state, and had not risen again to our justification, how would his justifying righteousness have been revealed, as it is from faith to faith in the Gospel, which is therefore called the word and ministration of righteousness?

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 88:12 The rhetorical questions in vv. 10-12 expect the answer, “Of course not!”

Geneva Bible: Psa 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land ( k ) of forgetfulness? ( k ) That is, in the grave, where only the body li...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Psa 88:1-18 - --1 A prayer containing a grievous complaint.

MHCC: Psa 88:10-18 - --Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor retu...

Matthew Henry: Psa 88:10-18 - -- In these verses, I. The psalmist expostulates with God concerning the present deplorable condition he was in (Psa 88:10-12): " Wilt thou do a miracu...

Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 88:8-12 - -- The octastichs are now followed by hexastichs which belong together in pairs. The complaint concerning the alienation of his nearest relations sound...

Constable: Psa 73:1--89:52 - --I. Book 3: chs 73--89 A man or men named Asaph wrote 17 of the psalms in this book (Pss. 73-83). Other writers w...

Constable: Psa 88:1-18 - --Psalm 88 This is one of the saddest of the psalms. It relates the prayer of a person who suffered intens...

Constable: Psa 88:12-17 - --3. The sufferer's faith 88:13-18 For the third time Heman cried out to God for help (cf. vv. 1-2...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 88 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 88:1, A prayer containing a grievous complaint. Mahalath. Psa 53:1 *title

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

Poole: Psalms 88 (Chapter Introduction) THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was composed upon a particular occasion, to wit, Heman’ s deep distress and dejection of mind almost to despair. But t...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 88 (Chapter Introduction) (Psa 88:1-9) The psalmist pours out his soul to God in lamentation. (Psa 88:10-18) He wrestles by faith, in his prayer to God for comfort.

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 88 (Chapter Introduction) 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 ...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 88 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 88 A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. Of the...

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