Psalms 88:17
They have surrounded me as waters all the day, || They have gone around against me together,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
In Context
16Your wrath has passed over me, || Your terrors have cut me off,
18You have put lover and friend far from me, || My acquaintance [is] the place of darkness!
Cross References
Job 30:14They come as a wide breach, || Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
Psalms 42:7Deep is calling to deep || At the noise of Your waterspouts, || All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
Psalms 116:3Cords of death have surrounded me, || And straits of Sheol have found me, || I find distress and sorrow.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overflowed us, || The stream passed over our soul,
Hosea 5:10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, || I pour out My wrath as water on them.
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 →