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Psalm 88

Psa. 88:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy wrath
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
h lieth hard
camak (Hebrew #5564)
to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
KJV usage: bear up, establish, (up-)hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
Pronounce: saw-mak'
Origin: a primitive root
upon me, and thou hast afflicted
`anah (Hebrew #6031)
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
KJV usage: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), speak (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (possibly rather ident. with 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI} through the idea of looking down or browbeating)
me with all thy waves
mishbar (Hebrew #4867)
a breaker (of the sea)
KJV usage: billow, wave.
Pronounce: mish-bawr'
Origin: from 7665
. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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1 Peter 2:24• 24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

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Thy wrath.
Psa. 38:1• 1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. (Psa. 38:1)
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Psa. 90:7• 7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled. (Psa. 90:7)
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Psa. 102:10• 10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. (Psa. 102:10)
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me. (Job 6:4)
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Job 10:16• 16And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me. (Job 10:16)
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John 3:36• 36He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. (John 3:36)
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Rom. 2:5‑9• 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
 6who shall render to each according to his works:
 7to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.
 8But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,
 9tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; (Rom. 2:5‑9)
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1 Peter 2:24• 24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
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Rev. 6:16‑17• 16and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and have us hidden from the face of him that sits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
 17because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:16‑17)
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Psa. 42:7• 7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. (Psa. 42:7)
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Jonah 2:3• 3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. (Jonah 2:3)
• God's wrath lay hard upon him. Still God was appealed to. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 88-89” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy wavesk. Selah.

JND Translation Notes

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Strictly, "breakers," as Ps. 42.7.