Psalm 88:15 Parallel Translations

Ever since I was young, I have been suffering and near death. I have endured your terrors, and now I am in despair. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

ASV:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

BBE:

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

DBY:

I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.

ERV:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

JPS:

I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.

WBS:

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.

YLT:

I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

Psalm 88:15 Cross References

XREF:

Job 6:4 "For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 31:23 "For calamity from God is a terror to me, And because of His majesty I can do nothing.

Proverbs 24:11 Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

88:15 I [am] afflicted and ready to die {l} from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
(l) I am always in great dangers and sorrows as though my life would utterly be cut off every moment.

MHC:

88:10-18 Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be in prayer. Nothing grieves a child of God so much as losing sight of him; nor is there any thing he so much dreads as God's casting off his soul. If the sun be clouded, that darkens the earth; but if the sun should leave the earth, what a dungeon would it be! Even those designed for God's favours, may for a time suffer his terrors. See how deep those terrors wounded the psalmist. If friends are put far from us by providences, or death, we have reason to look upon it as affliction. Such was the calamitous state of a good man. But the pleas here used were peculiarly suited to Christ. And we are not to think that the holy Jesus suffered for us only at Gethsemane and on Calvary. His whole life was labour and sorrow; he was afflicted as never man was, from his youth up. He was prepared for that death of which he tasted through life. No man could share in the sufferings by which other men were to be redeemed. All forsook him, and fled. Oftentimes, blessed Jesus, do we forsake thee; but do not forsake us, O take not thy Holy Spirit from us.

CONC:

Afflicted Borne Close Death Despair Die Distracted Expiring Fear Helpless Overcome Pine Point Ready Strength Suffer Suffered Terrors Troubled Wrath Youth

Afflicted Borne Close Death Despair Die Distracted Fear Hard Helpless Overcome Pine Point Ready Strength Suffer Suffered Terrors Time Troubled Wrath Young Youth

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