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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.

Context of Psalms 88:16

14Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me? 15From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. 17All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me. 18You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend.

Psalms 88:16 word by word

עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thy fierce wrathחָרוֹןchârôn chârôn · burning angerH2740
• goeth overעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• me; thy terrorsבִּעוּתִיםbi‛ûthîym · terrorH1161
• have cut me offצָמַתtsâmath · to destroyH6789

Cross-references for Psalms 88:16

• Psalms 38:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
• Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
• Psalms 90:7We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
• Psalms 102:10because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
• Isaiah 53:4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
• Romans 8:32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
• Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”
• Revelation 6:17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
• Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
• Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been 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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• 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