Psalms 88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms 88:17 in other translations
| BSB | All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, |
| DARBY | They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together. |
| BBE | They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. |
| Webster | They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together. |
What does Psalms 88:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 88:16-17
16-17. the extremes of anguish and despair are depicted.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Psalms 88:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 88:17
- Psalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- Psalms 69:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Job 30:14-15
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 124:4
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
- Lamentations 3:5-7
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Job 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. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Matthew 27:39-44
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. …
- Psalms 118:10-12
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
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Context
- Psalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
- Psalms 88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
- Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 88:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hanme rodeado como aguas de continuo; hanme cercado á una. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les ardeurs de ta colère ont passé sur moi, tes frayeurs m’ont anéanti; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie haben mich umringt wie Wasser den ganzen Tag, sie haben mich umgeben allesamt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et in nomine tuo exsultabunt tota die, et in justitia tua exaltabuntur. |