Psalms 88:16

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

14Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me? 15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted. Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought: 17They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together. 18Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.

Psalms 88:16 word by word

עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• terrorsאֵימָה'êymâh 'êmâh · terrorH367

Cross-references for Psalms 88:16

• Psalms 38:1Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
• Psalms 89:46How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?
• Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
• Psalms 102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
• Isaiah 53:4Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
• Romans 8:32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?
• Galatians 3:13Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every one hanged upon a tree,)
• Revelation 6:17because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?
• Isaiah 53:8He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
• Daniel 9:26And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, — the desolations determined.

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

Topics related to Psalms 88:16

• Afflictions and Adversities

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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