“Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?”
The lament for divine absence: "O LORD, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me?" The fundamental question of the psalm is asked: why has God withdrawn? The hiding of God's face represents the ultimate loss.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:14
1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi: and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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