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Psalms 88:7
7Your rage lies heavily on me. You make all your waves pound on me. 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 with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves, like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your power. 6You have put me in the bottom of the pit—in deep, dark places. Your rage lies heavily on me. You make all your waves pound on me. Selah 8You have taken my friends far away from me. You made me disgusting to them. I’m shut in, and I can’t get out. 9My eyes grow weak because of my suffering. All day long I call out to you, O Lord. I stretch out my hands to you ⌞in prayer⌟.
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 38:1O Lord, do not angrily punish me or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 90:7Indeed, your anger consumes us. Your rage terrifies us.
- Psalms 102:10because of your hostility and anger, because you have picked me up and thrown me away.
- Job 6:4because the arrows of the Almighty ⌞have found their target⌟ in me, and my spirit is drinking their poison. God’s terrors line up in battle against me.
- Job 10:16Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me.
- John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, he will see God’s constant anger.”
- Romans 2:5Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.
- 1 Peter 2:24Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so that freed from our sins, we could live a life that has God’s approval. His wounds have healed you.
- Revelation 6:16They said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the lamb,
- Psalms 42:7One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep, into the depths of the sea, and water surrounded me. All the whitecaps on your waves have 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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