Have cut me off. — Or, extinguished me. The form of the verb is very peculiar, and is variously explained. All that is certain is that it is intensive, expressing the hopeless and continued state of prostration of the sufferer. The LXX., “have frightened.”
Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:16
Psalms 88:16
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.