Psalms 88:16

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I have been afflicted and close to death since my youth; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.

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  • Ps 38:1-2 : 1 A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. 2 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah
  • Ps 90:7 : 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
  • Ps 102:10 : 10 For I eat ashes as my food and mix my drink with tears.
  • Isa 53:4-6 : 4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds, we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 By oppression and judgment, he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people, he was punished.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 After the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and desolation has been decreed until the end of the war.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?

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    14But I, LORD, cry to you for help; in the morning, my prayer comes before you.

    15Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?

  • Ps 88:6-8
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    6Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

    7You have placed me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

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    4From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.

    5My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Job 30:14-16
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    14They come in as through a wide breach; chaos rolls in like a wave under the crash of destruction.

    15Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my dignity like the wind, and my salvation has vanished like a cloud.

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

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    17Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

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    10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

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    4I called upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies.

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  • Ps 38:1-2
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    1A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

    2O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

  • Ps 90:7
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    7We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath.

  • Lam 3:53-54
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    53They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

    54Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.'

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    3Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

    4For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

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    10For I eat ashes as my food and mix my drink with tears.

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    12My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.

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    13His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

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    5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

    6The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22Blessed be the LORD, for he has shown his wondrous love to me in a fortified city.

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    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Ps 116:3
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    3The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

  • Ps 40:12
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    12LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; may Your love and truth always protect me.

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    8You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison. The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

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    21You have turned cruel to me; with Your strong hand, You oppose me.

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    21Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

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    15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

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    7My God, my soul is downcast within me. Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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    46You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

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    25For the thing I dread comes upon me, and what I fear befalls me.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

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    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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    4There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

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    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

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    19How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

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    14My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.