Psalm 88:15 “From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terror…”

Psalm 88:15

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors — I pine away.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“afflicted”

Psalm 73:14 Job 17:1 Job 17:11–16 Isaiah 53:3

Psalm 73:14 · BSB

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Job 17:1 · BSB

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Job 17:11–16 · BSB

My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

Isaiah 53:3 · BSB

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

“while”

Job 6:4 Luke 22:44 Job 7:11–16 Isaiah 53:10 Zechariah 13:7 Psalm 22:14

Job 6:4 · BSB

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Luke 22:44 · BSB

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Job 7:11–16 · BSB

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 53:10 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Zechariah 13:7 · BSB

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Psalm 22:14 · BSB

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

16Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

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