A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth.
A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1-7 Adonai, God of my salvation, I cry/scream out day and night before You. 2 Let my prayer come before You. Incline Yourear to my cries!
רנה (rinah) = “cry of / song of joy”
3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit. I am a man who has no strength, 5 like one quarantined among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Youremember no more, and they are cut off by Your hand. 6 You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. 7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and You overwhelm me with all Your waves. Selah
8-10 You have caused my companions to shun me. You have made me a horror to them; shut in, I cannot escape. 9 My eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon You, O Adonai. I stretched out my hands to You. 10 Will You work wonders for the dead? Do the departed arise to praise You? Selah
11-18 Is Your steadfast love declared in the grave, or Your faithfulness in Abaddon? 12 Are Your wonders known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But I, Adonai, cry to You, and in the morning my prayer comes before You. 14 Adonai, why do You cast my soul away? Why do You hide Your face from me? 15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer Your terrors. I am helpless. 16 Your wrath has swept over me. Your dreadful assaults destroy me. 17 They surround me like a flood all day long. They close in on me completely. 18 You have caused lover and friend to shun me. Darkness has become my companion.
Observations:
Satan receives no
The author does not forsake God.
God receives all the credit.
“Adonai” is God of my “Salvation”.
REFERENCES:
Superscription
1Chonicles 2:6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.
1Kings 4:31 For [Solomon] was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
1Chronicles 6:33 These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel,
Verse 5
2Kings 15:5 And Adonai touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house (בית החפשית, beit ha’chafshit)… [+ 2Chron. 26:21]
Verse 11
Revelation 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.