KJV King James Version
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
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Psalm 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
WEB World English Bible
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 88
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
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Psalm 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.Romans 2:5-9But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.Job 10:16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.John 3:36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.Psalm 102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.Psalm 38:1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.Psalm 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.Revelation 6:16-17And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:Psalm 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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