“Thou 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.”
Isolation from community: "You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape." The rupture of human relationships becomes linked to divine action: God has caused friends to abandon the supplicant. The inability to escape suggests imprisonment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:8
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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