Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
- BSB Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- NKJV Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
- NASB Your burning anger has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- NLT Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Isa 53:4–6Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Gal 3:13Christ 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,”
- Ps 38:1–2A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- Isa 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and 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?
- Ps 102:10Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
- Ps 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Rom 8:32He 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?
- Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
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