Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
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Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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(88-17) Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
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Passages linked to Psalms 88:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Revelation 6:17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Psalms 38:1-2 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
- Psalms 89:46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
- Psalms 102:10 because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
- Isaiah 53:4-6 Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 53:8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
- Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
- Romans 8:32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy…
Psa 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath, &c.] As rivers of brimstone.
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Have cut me off] Multis excisionibus ideoque duplicatur Tau.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thy fierce wrath goeth over me,.... Or "wraths" (h),…
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me,.... Or "wraths" (h), 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, Psa 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, Psa 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, Isa 53:8.
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(h) "irae tuae", Pagninus, Montanus; "furores tui", Musculus, Tigurine version.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me.] It…
Verse 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me.] It is a mighty flood by which I am overwhelmed.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters.…
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psa 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.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Cut me off—Thy terrible judgments have severed me…
16. Cut me off—Thy terrible judgments have severed me from the living.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. The fiery streams of thy wrath have gone…
16. The fiery streams of thy wrath have gone over me.
Cp. Psa_42:7; but for waves he substitutes fiery wraths.
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Thine alarms, a word found only in Job_6:4, have made an end of me (Lam_3:53).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Have cut me off.—Or, extinguished me. The form…
(16) Have cut me off.—Or, extinguished me. The form of the verb is very peculiar, and is variously explained. All that is certain is that it is intensive, expressing the hopeless and continued state of prostration of the sufferer. The LXX., “have frightened.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thy fierce wrath goeth over me. "Overwhelms me;" i.e.…
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me. "Overwhelms me;" i.e. "like a fiery flood" (see above, ver. 7). Thy terrors have cut me off. A different word is used for "terrors" from that which occurs in ver. 15, and one elsewhere occurring only in Job_6:4. The verb also is one characteristic of Job, (Job_6:17 Job_23:17) and means "extinguish," or "exterminate."
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me. What…
Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me. What an expression, "fierce wrath", and it is a man of God who feels it! Do we seek an explanation? It seemed so to him, but "tidings are not what they seem." No punitive anger ever falls upon the saved one, for Jesus shields him from it all; but a father's anger may fall upon his dearest child, none the less but all the more, because he loves it. Since Jesus bore my guilt as my substitute, my Judge cannot punish me, but my Father can and will correct me. In this sense the Father may even manifest "fierce wrath" to his erring child, and under a sense of it that dear broken down one may be laid in the dust and covered with wretchedness, and yet for all that he may be accepted and beloved of the Lord all the while. Heman represents God's wrath as breaking over him as waves over a wreck.
Thy terrors have cut me off. They have made me a marked man, they have made me feel like a leper separated from the congregation of thy people, and they have caused others to look upon me as no better than dead. Blessed be God this is the sufferer's idea and not the very truth, for the Lord will neither cast off nor cut off his people, but will visit his mourners with choice refreshments.
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Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me. Like a sea of liquid fire; (Ps 42:7) Heb. "Thy hot wraths." LXX (Septuagint) ai orgai sou William Kay
Ver. 16. Thy terrors have cut me off. In the Hebrew verb the last syllable is repeated for the purpose of putting vehemence into the expression. The word tme signifies, to shut up and press into some narrow place, in order that; one may not breathe or escape...In this sense Gregory Nazianzen in his
first oration concerning peace, calls grief (the prison of the heart). Mollerus.
Ver. 16.
1. Good men are often tried men.
2. Tried men frequently misjudge the Lord's dealings.
3. The Lord does not take them at their word, he is better than their fears. G.R.
Psalms 88:17*
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