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I. DEPICTING HIS WRETCHED STATE. He speaks of himself as "full of troubles," satiated with sufferings.

1. He represents himself as tottering on the grave and without power (vers. 2-5).

2. Crushed by agonies and conscious of the Divine displeasure (vers. 6, 7).

3. Bereft of friends, and the subject of social contempt (ver. 8).

4. Deprived of liberty and exhausted with grief. "I am shut up," etc. (ver. 8).

II. SUPPLICATING HIS AFFLICTING GOD. This he did —

1. With unremitting earnestness (ver. 1). To whom can human sufferers look for help, but to the God of "salvation"? And to look to Him with earnest constancy is at once our duty and our interest.

2. With profound inquiries (vers. 10-12). The living have a profound interest in the dead.

3. With pious determination (ver. 13).

4. With painful apprehension (vers. 14-18).

(Homilist.)

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KJV: {A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

WEB: Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.