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Psalms 88:16
16Your anger is too much for me! You are attacking me and destroying 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 throw me out? Why do you turn away from me? 15Since I was young, I have been in pain. I have always been near to death. You have caused bad troubles to frighten me, so that I feel helpless. Your anger is too much for me! You are attacking me and destroying me! 17The troubles that you send are all round me, like a flood of deep water. They come very near to me, on every side. 18You cause my friends and my neighbours to stay away from me. All that I have near to me is darkness.
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, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
- Psalms 89:46Lord, how long will this continue? Will you hide yourself from us for ever? Will your anger continue to burn like a fire?
- Psalms 90:7Your anger destroys us, and we become very afraid.
- Isaiah 53:4But he took away all our weakness! He carried our pain for us. We thought that he was receiving punishment for his own sins. We thought that God was causing him to suffer.
- Romans 8:32God did not even keep his own Son safe. Instead, he gave his Son to die on behalf of all of us. So certainly, God will continue to be kind to us. As well as his Son, he will give to us all things that we need.
- Galatians 3:13So God's Law shows that it is right for God to punish us. But Christ took that punishment away from us, because God punished him instead of us. It says in the Bible: ‘When people hang someone on a tree to kill him, it shows that God has cursed that person.’
- Revelation 6:17Their great day has come. They will punish us because they are so angry. Nobody will be able to escape.’
- Isaiah 53:8They spoke lies to accuse him in court. Then they led him away to kill him. And nobody at that time said that it was wrong. His life in this world quickly came to an end. And it was the sins of our own people that caused him to die.
- Daniel 9:26After the 62 weeks have passed, people will kill the ruler that God had chosen. He will have nothing. Then a foreign ruler and his army will attack the city and the temple. He will destroy them quickly, like a flood of water. War and terrible trouble will continue until the end that God has decided.
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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