Psalms 88:16

16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

Psalms 88:16 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
English Standard Version (ESV)
16 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.
The Message Bible (MSG)
16 Your wildfire anger has blazed through my life; I'm bleeding, black and blue.
American Standard Version (ASV)
16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
16 Your burning anger has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
16 Your wrath sweeps over me; Your terrors destroy me.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
16 Your burning anger has swept over me. Your terrors 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, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
15 From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
17 All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.
18 You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend.

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