Psalms 88:16

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - It is a mighty flood by which I am overwhelmed.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psalms 88:7 . Thy terrors have cut me off - That is, I am as one already dead; I am so nea...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXVIII. A Leper's Prayer. This Ps. has striking peculiarities. The suffering here portrayed has been long and terrible. The Psalmist has been tor...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

over me. Same word as "upon me", Psalms 88:7 .
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 647 DISTRESS OF SOUL CONSIDERED Psalms 88:14-16 . Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicte...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Thy terrors have cut me off - the same Hebrew ( tsimtuwtuniy ( H6789 )) as i...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is the saddest and most despairing of all the Pss. The writer is apparently the victim of some incurable disease like leprosy, with which he has...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 inte...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 88:1-18 A PSALM which begins with "God of my salvation" and ends with "darkness" is an anomaly. All but unbroken gloom broods over it, and...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry from the Waves Psalms 88:1-18 Most of the psalms which begin in sorrow end in exuberant joy and praise. This is an exception. There seems...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song sobbing with sadness form beginning to end. It seems to have no gleam of light or of hope. Commencing with an appeal to Jehovah to hea...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is a great degree of earnestness in the sorrows, again repeated, through these verses. Jesus, from the moment of his birth to the cross, sancti...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ,.... Or "wraths" h, burning wrath; the whole of divine wrath, in all its fierceness, due to the sins of his people:...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Ver. 16. Thy fierce wrath, &c. ] As rivers of brimstone. Have cut me off ] Mu...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In the morning shall my prayer prevent thee That is, shall be offered to thee early, before the ordinary time of morning prayer, or before the dawn...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Pleading with God. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the d...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Song or Psalm,” i.e. , combining the properties of both a Psalm and a song. “For the sons of Korah ,” see Introduc...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 88:15-16 What is it that the psalmist declares of himself in these words but that God's judgments have always and habitually possessed his...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahaloth Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. I think that this is the darkest...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dr. Lightfoot affirms that this, and the eighty ninth psalm, were written by Heman and Ethan, sons of Zerah, or the Ezrahites mentioned in 1 Chronic...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee. A portrait of a suffering man I. Depicting his wretched state. He speaks of...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE most mournful of all the psalms. After one almost formal "word of trust" ( Psalms 88:1 ), the remainder is a continuous bitte...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Lament in the Midst of Suffering and Tribulation. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, written by a member of this illustrious family of music...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me, the billows of God's wrath submerging him; Thy terrors have cut me off, thereby crushing him.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 9:26 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Isaiah 53:4-6 ; Isaiah 53:8 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 38:1 ; Psalms 38:2 ; Psalms 89:46 ; Psalms 90:11 ; Psal...

¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 88:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:16