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Psalms 88:7
7Your wrath weighs heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.Selah
Psalms 88:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- New International Version (NIV)Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
Context of Psalms 88:7
5abandoned among the dead. I am like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, and who are cut off from your care. 6You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit, in the darkest places, in the depths. Your wrath weighs heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.Selah 8You have distanced my friends from me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and cannot go out. 9My eyes are worn out from crying. Lord, I cry out to you all day long; I spread out my hands to you.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:7 word by word
עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְכָל־מִ֝שְׁבָּרֶ֗יךָ עִנִּ֥יתָ סֶּֽלָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 88:7
- Psalms 38:1Lord, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- 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.
- Job 6:4Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
- Job 10:16If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.
- John 3:36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
- Romans 2:5Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.
- 1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
- Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.
- Jonah 2:3When you threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
Commentaries on Psalms 88:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves - The figures in this verse seem to be taken from a tempest at sea. The storm is fierce, and the waves cover the ship.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me - Presses me down; burdens me. The meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pressed hard on him. and crushed him to the earth. These bodily sufferings he interpreted, in the sad and gloomy state of mind in which he was, as evidences of the divine displeasure against himself. And thou hast afflicted me - Thou hast oppressed me, or broken me…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7In his first complaint, the psalmist blames the Lord for his suffering. God’s overwhelming anger does not make sense to him. The phrase the darkest of the depths might refer to: the place of the dead (Psalm 143:3; see Lamentations 3:6), or the deep sea (Psalms 68:22; 69:1–2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Compare Psa 38:2, on first, and Psa 42:7, on last clause.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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