Despair

The Depths of Despair - Psalms 88:1 – 88:18 (commentary)

This Psalm is acknowledged by many as one of the saddest of all the psalms. The key to understanding it is to picture the writer as a leper who is suffering from a loathsome, disfiguring, and dreadful disease which has afflicted him from childhood. It could be described as life i …