Psalms 88:17
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- KJV
- They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
- WEB
- They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
- ASV
- They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
- DARBY
- They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.
- BLB
- They came around me like the waters all the day, they surrounded me altogether.
- ÅB
- De har omgitt meg som vann hele dagen, de har omringet meg alle sammen.
- OTB
- De har omringet meg som vann hele dagen;
De har omsluttet meg fullstendig. - B1930
- De har omgitt mig som vann hele dagen, de har omringet mig alle sammen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Read in contextPsalms 69:1–2
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Read in contextPsalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Read in contextJob 30:14–15
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Read in contextPsalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Read in contextPsalms 124:4
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Read in contextLamentations 3:5–7
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Read in contextJob 16:12–13
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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