Psalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
In Context
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
17They came round about me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together.
Cross References
Job 30:15Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 90:11Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Isaiah 53:8In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?
Romans 8:32He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:11-18
Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 14 Lord , why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer… Read the whole commentary →