Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 88 connects to 10 cross-references. A Korahite lament of Heman the Ezrahite, one of the darkest psalms in the Psalter, expressing unrelenting suffering and divine abandonment. Unlike most laments it contains no turn toward confidence or praise. The psalmist is counted among those going to …
Other Translations
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
I <FI>am<Fi> afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors--I pine away.
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.
Cross References
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in …
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God …
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it …
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite …
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood …