Psalm 88:16

16 Your wrath sweeps over me; Your terrors destroy me.

Psalm 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 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Psalm 88:16 In-Context

14 Lord, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

15 From my youth, I have been afflicted and near death. I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

16 Your wrath sweeps over me; Your terrors destroy me.

17 They surround me like water all day long; they close in on me from every side.

18 You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me; darkness is my [only] friend.

Footnotes

• [a] Jb 6:4