Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- BSB Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- NKJV Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
- NASB Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
- NLT Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- Rom 2:5–9But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Ps 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
- Rev 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Jonah 2:3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
- Ps 102:10Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
- Ps 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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