Psalms 88:16

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me,.... Or "wraths" (h), burning wrath; the whole of divine wrath, in all its fierceness, due to the sins of his people: these, like the mighty waves of the sea, passed…

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me - Like waters. See Psa 88:7. Thy terrors have cut me off - That is, I am as one already dead; I am so near to death that I may be spoken of as dead.

In these verses,

I. The psalmist expostulates with God concerning the present deplorable condition he was in (Psa 88:10-12): "Wilt thou do a miraculous work to the dead, and raise them to life again?…

The fiery streams of thy wrath have gone over me.

Cp. Psa 42:7; but for waveshe substitutes fiery wraths.

Thine alarms, a word found only in Job 6:4, have made an end of me (Lam 3:53).