Psalms 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles,.... Or "satiated or glutted" (e) with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity…

For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that this…

It should seem, by the titles of this and the following psalm, that Heman was the penman of the one and Ethan of the other. There were two, of these names, who were sons of Zerah the son of Judah, Ch1…

For&c. He pleads the urgency of his need as the ground for a hearing.

draweth nigh&c. Hath drawn nigh unto Sheol, the gloomy nether world which is the abode of the departed. Cp. Psa 6:5; Psa 107:18.