Study 68 From the Book of
Psalms is: Psalms 88
In some respects, this
psalm depicts the sufferings of the Jewish nation in exile. The Christian may
find in it a picture of the sufferings of Christ. But, the language of the
psalm is universal, and no one specific application exhausts it; hence its
continuing relevance.
1.
Summarize
the main features of the sufferers’s distress. The sufferer cleaves to God most
passionately when God seems to have removed Himself most completely. How do you
account for the persistence of his faith?
Cf. Is. 50:10; Hab. 3:17, 18.
2.
Verses
4-6, 10-12. With the psalmist’s view of death and its sequel, cf. Ps. 6:5;
30:9; Is. 38:18. Contrast it with that of the Christian and note whence light
and hope come. See 2 Tim. 1:10; Heb. 2:14, 15; 1 Cor. 15: 17, 18, 51-57.
