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Psalms 88:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. "
Psalms 88:15
Verse in Context
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13 But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14 LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
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Psalms 88:1
"LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you."
Psalms 88:2
"Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry."
Psalms 88:3
"For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol."
Psalms 88:4
"I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,"
Psalms 88:5
"set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand."
Psalms 88:6
"You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths."
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