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Psalm 88

Psa. 88:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy fierce wrath
charown (Hebrew #2740)
from 2734; a burning of anger
KJV usage: sore displeasure, fierce(-ness), fury, (fierce) wrath(-ful).
Pronounce: khaw-rone'
Origin: or (shortened) charon {khaw-rone'}
y goeth over
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
me; thy terrors
bi`uwthiym (Hebrew #1161)
alarms
KJV usage: terrors.
Pronounce: be-oo-theme'
Origin: masculine plural from 1204
have cut me off
tsamath (Hebrew #6789)
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
Pronounce: tsaw-math'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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fierce.
Psa. 38:1‑2• 1A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}Nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.
(Psa. 38:1‑2)
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Psa. 89:46• 46How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever?{HR}Shall thy wrath burn as fire? (Psa. 89:46)
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Psa. 90:7,11• 7For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
11Who knoweth the power of thine anger,{HR}And, as thy fear, thy wrath?
(Psa. 90:7,11)
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Psa. 102:10• 10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath;{HR}For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down. (Psa. 102:10)
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Isa. 53:4‑6• 4Surely he [it is] hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(Isa. 53:4‑6)
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Rom. 8:32• 32He at least that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely grant us all things? (Rom. 8:32)
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Gal. 3:13• 13Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,”) (Gal. 3:13)
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Rev. 6:17• 17for the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:17)
cut me.
 As they view the apostate nation being slaughtered by the thousands, they learn in their conscience the reality and horror of God’s wrath against sin. Compare Joel 2:1-17 (especially verses 12-17). (Book 3. by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy fierce angera hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:

JND Translation Notes

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The Hebrew word is plural.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thy fierce angers have come over me;{HR}Thy terrors have cut me off,