They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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Gill's Exposition
They came round about me daily like water,.... That is, the terrors of the Lord, the sorrows of death and hell, Psa 18:4, this was the Messiah's case, when it was with him as is expressed Psa 69:1,…
Barnes' Notes
They came round about me daily like water - Margin, “as in” Hebrew, all the day. That is, his troubles seemed to be like the waves of the sea cohnstantly breaking on the shore. See Psa 42:7. They…
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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?…
Cambridge Bible
They have surrounded me like water all the day long;
They have encompassed me about together.
The figure of Psa 88:88 is continued. The flood of calamity threatens to engulf him, and there is none…
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