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Psalm 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.
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Wrath has weight here, and affliction comes in waves; the speaker addresses God as the one who has brought this distress upon him.
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Psalm 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.Both speakers describe distress through waves belonging to God, with the waters overwhelming the person who speaks.
Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Both passages connect personal affliction with God's wrath, using waves in the psalm and a rod in Lamentations.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.Both speakers attribute their suffering to God, describing his waves or his arrows as the source of their distress.
Romans 2:5–9But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of …Both name God's wrath; Romans links it to an unrepentant heart, while Psalm 88:7 describes affliction without naming a particular sin.
1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.The shared thread is suffering: Psalm 88 describes affliction, while Peter names Christ's wounds and his bearing of sins.
Job 9:18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.Both speakers describe suffering attributed to God, through overwhelming waves in the psalm and denied breath in Job.
Psalm 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.Both prayers address God concerning his wrath; Psalm 38 asks against chastening, while Psalm 88 describes affliction already endured.
Psalm 102:10because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.Both speakers name God's wrath and describe themselves as subjected to his overwhelming action.
Revelation 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,Both passages name wrath; the psalm speaks to God from distress, while Revelation depicts people seeking shelter from the Lamb's wrath.
Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.Both speakers address God as the source of their suffering, using waves in the psalm and a hunting lion in Job.
Psalm 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.Both prayers describe God's action as a weight upon the speaker, naming heavy wrath or a heavy hand.
John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”Both texts name God's wrath; John connects remaining under wrath with disobeying the Son, while the psalm describes the speaker's affliction.
Where this verse fits
Grief. feeling distant from God.
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Encouragement
You do not have to turn distress into a tidy conclusion before speaking to God. Here, the speaker names wrath and affliction, and still addresses God.
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