Psalms 88:16

I feel that you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

In Context

15All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am ◄in despair/very discouraged► because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.

17I feel as though they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are ◄closing in on/crushing► me from all sides.

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Cross References

Job 30:15I am very terrified; My dignity/honor has been taken away as though [SIM] it has been blown away by the wind, and my prosperity has disappeared like [SIM] clouds disappear.

Psalms 89:46O Yahweh, how long will this continue? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like a fire?

Psalms 90:11No one [RHQ] has fully experienced the powerful things you can do to them when you are angry with them, and people are not afraid that you will greatly punish them because of your being angry with them.

Psalms 119:120I [SYN] tremble because I am afraid of you; I am afraid because you punish those who do not obey ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.

Isaiah 53:8After he is arrested and put on trial, he will be taken away and executed. And no one [RHQ] will be able to talk about his descendants, because he will die [EUP] without being married and having children. He will be ◄afflicted/caused to suffer► for the wrong things that we have done.

Romans 8:32God did not spare even his very own Son. Instead, he turned him over to others to cruelly kill him in order that all we who believe in him may benefit from his dying for us. Therefore, because God did that, ◄he will also certainly give us freely everything that we need to live for him, in addition to giving us Christ./will he not also certainly give us freely everything that we need to live for him, in addition to giving us Christ?► [RHQ]

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 →

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