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I Cry Out before You

Psalms 88:7

In 11 translations

BSB
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
KJV
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
WEB
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
ASV
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah
LSV
Your fury has lain on me, || And You have afflicted [with] all Your breakers. Selah.
YLT
Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And [with] all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
DBY
Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
DRC87:8
Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
GNV
Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.
JPS88:8
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down. Selah
LXXE87:8
Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

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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

WLC88:8
עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְכָל־מִ֝שְׁבָּרֶ֗יךָ עִנִּ֥יתָ סֶּֽלָה׃KJV:Ps.88.7
LXX-Br87:8
Ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἐπεστηρίχθη ὁ θυμός σου, καὶ πάντας τοὺς μετεωρισμούς σου ἐπήγαγες ἐπʼ ἐμέ· διάψαλμα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
  • 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
  • Romans 2:5–9But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. God “will repay each one according to his deeds.” To those…
  • 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.
  • Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
  • Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
  • Revelation 6:16–17And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to…
  • Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
  • John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
  • Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
  • Psalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
  • Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

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

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 88:8 in some Bibles
  • 88:7 in most Bibles

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