Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 88:16
16Your wrath sweeps over me; your terrors destroy me.
Psalms 88:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
- New International Version (NIV)Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
Context of Psalms 88:16
14Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you hide your face from me? 15From my youth, I have been suffering and near death. I suffer your horrors; I am desperate. Your wrath sweeps over me; your terrors destroy me. 17They surround me like water all day long; they close in on me from every side. 18You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me; darkness is my only friend.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:16 word by word
עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 88:16
- Psalms 38:1Lord, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Will your anger keep burning like fire?
- Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
- Psalms 102:10because of your indignation and wrath; for you have picked me up and thrown me aside.
- Isaiah 53:4Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
- Romans 8:32He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
- Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
- Revelation 6:17because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”
- Isaiah 53:8He was taken away because of oppression and judgment, and who considered his fate? For he was cut off from the land of the living; he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
- Daniel 9:26After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.
Commentaries on Psalms 88:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - It is a mighty flood by which I am overwhelmed.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psalm 88:7. Thy terrors have cut me off - That is, I am as one already dead; I am so near to death that I may be spoken of as dead.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be in prayer. Nothing grieves…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-17In his third charge, the psalmist accuses the Lord of rejecting him. The force and apparent cruelty of the psalmist’s suffering overwhelm him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. the extremes of anguish and despair are depicted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 88
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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