Psalms 88 · Verse 15

Psalms 88:15

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Psalms 88:15, King James Version

Psalms 88:15 in other translations

BSBFrom my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
WEBI am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
ASVI am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
YLTI am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors--I pine away.
DARBYI am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.
BBEI 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.
WebsterI am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

What does Psalms 88:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. from ... youth up--all my life.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 From my youth up - I have always been a child of sorrow, afflicted in my body, and distressed in my mind. There are still found in the Church of God persons in similar circumstances; persons who are continually mourning for themselves and for the desolations of Zion. A disposition of this kind is sure to produce an unhealthy body; and indeed a weak constitution may often produce an enfeebled mind; but where the terrors of the Lord prevail, there is neither health of body nor peace of mind.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 88:10-18

Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be…

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Psalms 88:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עָ֘נִ֤י'a.Ni[have been] afflictedH6041
אֲנִ֣י'a.NiIH589
וְגֹוֵ֣עַve.goyE.a'and [have been] about to dieH1478
מִנֹּ֑עַרmi.No.'arfrom youthH5290
נָשָׂ֖אתִיna.Sa.tiI have borneH5375
אֵמֶ֣יךָ'e.Mei.khaterrors yourH367
אָפֽוּנָה\׃'a.Fu.nahI am perplexedH6323

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 88:15

  • Job 6:4

    For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Luke 22:44

    And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

  • Psalms 73:14

    For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • Job 7:11-16

    Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: …

  • Isaiah 53:10

    Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

  • Zechariah 13:7

    Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

  • Job 17:11-16

    My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. …

  • Job 17:1

    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Psalms 22:14-15

    I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Isaiah 53:3

    He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
afflicted.
73:14; Job 17:1,11-16; Isa 53:3
while.
22:14,15; Job 6:4; 7:11-16; Isa 53:10; Zec 13:7; Lu 22:44

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 88:14

    Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Psalms 88:15

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

  • Psalms 88:16

    Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Read all of Psalms 88

Psalms 88:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Yo soy afligido y menesteroso: desde la mocedad he llevado tus terrores, he estado medroso.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Éternel! pourquoi as-tu rejeté mon âme, et me caches-tu ta face?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Elend bin ich und verscheidend von Jugend auf; ich trage deine Schrecken, bin verwirrt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		justitia et judicium præparatio sedis tuæ: misericordia et veritas præcedent faciem tuam.