Psalms 88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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
They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,
They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
Cross References
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall …
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken …
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the …
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow …
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.