Tree of Life Version
Psalms 88:16
16From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death. I suffer Your terrors—I am desperate!
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
14But I—I cried out to You, Adonai, and in the morning my prayer meets You. 15Adonai, why do You spurn me? Why do You hide Your face from me? From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death. I suffer Your terrors—I am desperate! 17Your fury has swept over me. Your terrors have cut me off. 18Like water they surge around me all day. They close in on me together.
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 38:1A psalm of David, for a memorial.
- Psalms 89:46You cut short the days of his youth. You covered him with shame. Selah
- Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Psalms 102:10For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears—
- Isaiah 53:4Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our pains. Yet we esteemed Him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.
- Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?
- Galatians 3:13Messiah liberated us from Torah’s curse, 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 their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
- Isaiah 53:8Because of oppression and judgment He was taken away. As for His generation, who considered? For He was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgression of my people— the stroke was theirs
- Daniel 9:26Then after the 62 weeks Mashiach will be cut off and have nothing. Then the people of a prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. But his end will come like a flood. Until the end of the war that is decreed there will be destruction.
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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