New King James Version
Psalms 88:16
16Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.
Context of Psalms 88:16
14Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? 15I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught. Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off. 17They came around me all day long like water; They engulfed me altogether. 18Loved one and friend You have put far from me, And my acquaintances into darkness.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:16 word by word
עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 88:16
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!
- Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 90:7For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.
- Psalms 102:10Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
- Isaiah 53:4Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
- Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
- Galatians 3:13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
- Revelation 6:17For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
- Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
- Daniel 9:26“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are 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
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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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