New Living Translation
Psalms 88:15
15I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
Psalms 88:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- New International Version (NIV)From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught.
Context of Psalms 88:15
13O Lord, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day. 14O Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face from me? I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors. 16Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me. 17They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long. They have engulfed me completely.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:15 word by word
עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְגֹוֵ֣עַ מִנֹּ֑עַר נָשָׂ֖אתִי אֵמֶ֣יךָ אָפֽוּנָה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 88:15
- Psalms 73:14I get nothing but trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
- Psalms 22:14My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
- Job 6:4For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows. Their poison infects my spirit. God’s terrors are lined up against me.
- Job 7:11“I cannot keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. My bitter soul must complain.
- Isaiah 53:10But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
- Zechariah 13:7“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, the man who is my partner,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the lambs.
- Luke 22:44He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.
Commentaries on Psalms 88:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15From my youth up - I have always been a child of sorrow, afflicted in my body, and distressed in my mind. There are still found in the Church of God persons in similar circumstances; persons who are continually mourning for themselves and for the desolations of Zion. A disposition of this kind is sure to produce an unhealthy body; and indeed a weak constitution may often produce an enfeebled mind; but where the terrors of the Lord prevail, there is…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15I am afflicted and ready to die - I am so afflicted - so crushed with sorrow and trouble - that my strength is nearly gone, and I can endure it but a little longer. From my youth up - That is, for a long time; so long, that the remembrance of it seems to go back to my very childhood. My whole life has been a life of trouble and sorrow, and I have not strength to bear it longer. It may have been literally true that the author of the psalm had been a man…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. 1515. from ... youth up--all my life.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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