Psalms 88:16

16 Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.

Psalms 88:16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 88:16

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me
Or "wraths" F8, burning wrath; the whole of divine wrath, in all its fierceness, due to the sins of his people: these, like the mighty waves of the sea, passed over him, threatening to overwhelm him, ( Psalms 89:38 ) ,

thy terrors have cut me off;
from the presence of God, and out of his sight; as sometimes the Lord's people are ready to imagine, when forsaken by him, ( Psalms 31:22 ) or from the land of the living, as the Messiah was, and in a judicial way, though not for any sin of his own, ( Isaiah 53:8 ) ( Daniel 9:26 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (Kynwrx) "irae tuae", Pagninus, Montanus; "furores tui", Musculus, Tigurine version.

Psalms 88:16 In-Context

14 Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?
15 I [am] afflicted and perishing from [my] youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.
16 Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.
17 They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.
18 You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.
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