Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your 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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Quick answer
God's fierce wrath has swept over him and His terrors have cut him off. He feels overwhelmed by divine judgment.
Overview
Heman again describes being engulfed by God's wrath and terrors, feeling severed from comfort. The relentless imagery conveys unrelieved distress. This experience of overwhelming wrath finds its ultimate answer in Christ, who absorbed the wrath that would otherwise cut off His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Rev 6:17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
- Dan 9:26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- Ps 89:46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
- Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Ps 102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
- Ps 90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- Isa 53:4–6Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- Isa 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
- Ps 38:1–2O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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