Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 88:7 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.”
Psalms 88:7
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. {from: or, by}
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: {I am} shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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