Psalms 88:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:1-2 : 1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury! 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
  • Ps 90:7 : 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.
  • Ps 102:10 : 10 because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
  • Isa 53:4-6 : 4 But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. 5 He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed. 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 He was led away after an unjust trial– but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 88:14-15
    2 verses
    86%

    14 O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

    15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

  • Ps 88:6-8
    3 verses
    83%

    6 You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

    7 Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.(Selah)

    8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

  • Ps 55:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4 My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

    5 Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.

  • Job 30:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14 They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

    15 Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

    16 Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

  • 17 They surround me like water all day long; they join forces and encircle me.

  • 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • Ps 18:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

  • Ps 38:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!

    2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

  • 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

  • Lam 3:53-54
    2 verses
    75%

    53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

    54 The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.

  • Ps 88:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

    4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

  • 10 because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

  • 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

  • 13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    6 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

  • 22 I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

  • 11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 4 My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • 3 The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

  • 12 For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

  • Job 16:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

    9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

  • 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

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

  • 53 Rage takes hold of me because of the wicked, those who reject your law.

  • 21 You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

  • 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • 15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • 7 One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

  • 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

  • 25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

  • 10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • 17 I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • 18 The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

  • 28 I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

  • 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

  • 14 נ(Nun) My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke; they are fastened together by his hand. He has placed his yoke on my neck; he has sapped my strength. The Lord has handed me over to those whom I cannot resist.