King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 1 note
1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
The heading of this psalm says it's by the Ezrahite...
Are we then to presume that the person descended from Ezra? That would then mean this psalm was after the captivity, and the people had returned back to their land, and way after Ezra had died and now his generation after him had multiplied.
Is this assumption right 👉?
I read an article online that confirmed this thought but was quick to add that because of the poetic nature of the psalm it was difficult to come up with a definite date.
https://honorsblog.uark.edu/psalms/#:~:text=Most%20modern%20scholars%20believe%20the,because%20of%20their%20poetic%20nature.
There is a different and contrasting view that suggests that there was mention of Heman the Ezrahite in the days of Solomon and David, and if this was the same man, then he lived in their time.
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/psalm-88/
Let's see how this goes.
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.