Psalms 88:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְגֹוֵ֣עַ מִנֹּ֑עַר נָשָׂ֖אתִי אֵמֶ֣יךָ אָפֽוּנָה׃

Transliteration

ʿānî I and-gôvēaʿ from-nōʿar nāśāʾtî ʾēmêkā ʾāpûnâ

Grammar Details

*ʿānî*: adjective, masculine, singular - afflicted/poor
*gôvēaʿ*: participle, Qal, masculine, singular - dying/expiring
*nōʿar*: noun, masculine, singular - youth
*nāśāʾtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have borne/carried
*ʾēmêkā*: noun, masculine, plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your terrors
*ʾāpûnâ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person singular cohortative - I am distracted/helpless

Word Meanings

*ʿānî*: afflicted/poor/humble/wretched
*gôvēaʿ*: dying/expiring/perishing
*nōʿar*: youth/childhood/young age
*nāśāʾtî*: I have borne/carried/endured/suffered
*ʾēmêkā*: your terrors/threats/horrors
*ʾāpûnâ*: I am distracted/helpless/benumbed/desperate

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 38:1-2 : 1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Ps 90:7 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Ps 102:10 : 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
Isa 53:4-6 : 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:8 : 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
Dan 9:26 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
Rom 8:32 : 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Rev 6:17 : 17 for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 88:14-15
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14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
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Ps 88:6-8
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83%
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
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Ps 55:4-5
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79%
4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
Job 30:14-16
3 verses
77%
14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
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Ps 88:17
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17They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
Ps 39:10
76%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Ps 18:4-5
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75%
4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
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Ps 38:1-2
2 verses
75%
1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Ps 90:7
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7For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
Lam 3:53-54
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75%
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
54Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Ps 88:3-4
2 verses
74%
3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
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Isa 38:12
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Job 16:13
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13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
2 Sam 22:5-6
2 verses
74%
5For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
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Ps 31:22
73%
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Ps 143:4
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Ps 116:3
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Ps 40:12
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Job 16:8-9
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4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Job 30:21
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21Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.
Job 13:21
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21Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.
Ps 22:15
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Ps 42:7
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Ps 89:46
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46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Job 3:25
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Isa 38:10
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Lam 3:17
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Ps 38:4
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Job 17:1
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Ps 118:18
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18Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.
Job 9:28
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Ps 73:19
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Lam 1:14
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