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Psalms 88:7

Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Trials;   Waters of Affliction;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Wrath of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Affliction;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezrahite;   Heman;   Korah, Korahites;   Prayer;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mahalath;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Waves;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hard;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cruelty;   Sheol;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Your wrath lies upon me,And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah.
Darby Translation
Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
New King James Version
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.Selah
Literal Translation
Your fury has lain hard upon me, and You afflict me with all Your waves. Selah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Your anger presses down on me like a heavy weight. It's like one wave after another pounding against me. Selah
World English Bible
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
King James Version (1611)
Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.
King James Version
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. Thou hast put awaye myne acquataunce farre fro me, & made me to be abhorred of them:
Amplified Bible
Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.
American Standard Version
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah
Bible in Basic English
The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
Update Bible Version
Your wrath lies hard on me, And you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
New English Translation
Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)
Contemporary English Version
your anger rolls over me like ocean waves.
Complete Jewish Bible
You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into dark places, into the depths.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, & thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.
George Lamsa Translation
Thy wrath rests hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Hebrew Names Version
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast laid me in the nethermost pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
New Life Bible
Your anger has rested upon me. And You have troubled me with all Your waves.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.
English Revised Version
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah
Berean Standard Bible
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
New Revised Standard
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon me, hath rested thine indignation, And, with all thy breakers, hast thou caused affliction. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(87-8) Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
Lexham English Bible
Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict me with all your waves. Selah
English Standard Version
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
New American Standard Bible
Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
New Century Version
You have been very angry with me; all your waves crush me. Selah
Good News Translation
Your anger lies heavy on me, and I am crushed beneath its waves.
Christian Standard Bible®
Your wrath weighs heavily on me; You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves. Selah
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thi strong veniaunce is confermed on me; and thou hast brouyt in alle thi wawis on me.
Young's Literal Translation
Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And [with] all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
Revised Standard Version
Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]

Contextual Overview

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For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune "The Suffering of Affliction." A psalm of Heman the Ezrahite.

O Lord , God of my salvation, I cry out to you by day. I come to you at night. 2 Now hear my prayer; listen to my cry. 3 For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near. 4 I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left. 5 They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse in a grave. I am forgotten, cut off from your care. 6 You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths. 7 Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude 8 You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them. I am in a trap with no way of escape. 9 My eyes are blinded by my tears. Each day I beg for your help, O Lord ; I lift my hands to you for mercy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy wrath: Psalms 38:1, Psalms 90:7, Psalms 102:10, Job 6:4, Job 10:16, John 3:36, Romans 2:5-9, 1 Peter 2:24, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 6:17

with: Psalms 42:7, Jonah 2:3

Reciprocal: Job 9:18 - will not Psalms 69:2 - deep waters Psalms 116:3 - sorrows Psalms 130:1 - Out of Lamentations 3:1 - the man Mark 14:50 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wrath lieth hard upon me,.... So some good men apprehend, when they are under afflictive dispensations of Providence, and are left of God, and have not his immediate presence, and the discoveries of his love; though fury is not in him, nor does any wrath in reality fall upon them, only it seems so to them; see Psalms 38:1, but the wrath of God did really lie with all the effects of it upon Christ, as the surety of his people, when he was made sin, and a curse for them; see Psalms 89:38,

and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves; the afflictions of God's people are compared to waves and billows of the sea, which are many, and come one upon the back of another, and threaten to overwhelm and sink; see Psalms 42:7 and so the sufferings of Christ are signified by waters coming into him, and floods overflowing him; and hence they are called a baptism, Psalms 69:1, and these were brought upon him by the Lord; he spared him not; he laid the whole chastisement, all the punishment due to the sins of his people, on him; he caused every wave to come upon him, and him to endure all sorrows and sufferings the law and justice of God could require.

Selah. Psalms 69:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me - Presses me down; burdens me. The meaning is, that that which was the proper and usual expression of wrath or displeasure - to wit, bodily and mental suffering - pressed hard on him. and crushed him to the earth. These bodily sufferings he interpreted, in the sad and gloomy state of mind in which he was, as evidences of the divine displeasure against himself.

And thou hast afflicted me - Thou hast oppressed me, or broken me down.

With all thy waves - literally, “thy breakers;” that is, with expressions of wrath like the waves of the sea, which foam and break on the shore. Nothing could be a more striking image of wrath. Those “breakers” seem to be so furious and angry, they rush along with so much impetuosity, they are so mighty, they dash with such fury on the shore, that it seems as if nothing could stand before them. Yet they find a barrier such as we should little expect. The low and humble beach made of shifting sand, where there seems to be no stability, is an effectual barrier against all their rage; as the humble piety of the child of God, apparently without strength to resist calamity, bears all the beatings of affliction, and maintains its place as the heavy waves of sorrow roll upon it. On the meaning of the word used here, and on the idea expressed, see the notes at Psalms 42:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 88:7. Thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. — The figures in this verse seem to be taken from a tempest at sea. The storm is fierce, and the waves cover the ship.


 
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