Psalms 88:16

16 Your furious anger crushes me; your terrible attacks destroy 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 me, Lord? Why do you turn away from me?
15 Ever since I was young, I have suffered and been near death; I am worn out from the burden of your punishments.
16 Your furious anger crushes me; your terrible attacks destroy me.
17 All day long they surround me like a flood; they close in on me from every side.
18 You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.