Psalms 88:8

Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

9Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

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Cross References

Job 12:14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open.

Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

Psalms 31:11For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

Psalms 88:18They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Psalms 143:4When my spirit failed me, then thou newest my paths.

Isaiah 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →

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