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I Cry Out before You

Psalms 88:15

In 11 translations

BSB
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
KJV
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
WEB
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
ASV
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
LSV
I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, || I have borne Your terrors—I pine away.
YLT
I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors — I pine away.
DBY
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
DRC87:16
I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
GNV
I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.
JPS88:16
I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.
LXXE87:16
I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.See 2 Cor. 4. 8.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC88:16
עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְגֹוֵ֣עַ מִנֹּ֑עַר נָשָׂ֖אתִי אֵמֶ֣יךָ אָפֽוּנָה׃KJV:Ps.88.15
LXX-Br87:16
Πτωχός εἰμι ἐγὼ καὶ ἐν κόποις ἐκ νεότητός μου, ὑψωθεὶς δὲ ἐταπεινώθην καὶ ἐξηπορήθην.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  • Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
  • Job 7:11–16Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? When I think…
  • Psalms 73:14For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
  • Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His…
  • Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  • Psalms 22:14–15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust…
  • Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
  • Job 17:11–16My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart. They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in…
  • Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 88:16 in some Bibles
  • 88:15 in most Bibles

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