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Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Psalms 88:16 · World English Bible
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

Cross-references · 11

  • 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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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 88:16 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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