Psalms 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
BSB
ASV
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah
KJV
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
"Thy fury is confirmed upon me." For this reason all thy fury came upon me, that it might depart from others. "And all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me." Upon me the whole tempest thundered down, that calm might come to the world.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me. Dreadful plight this, the worst in which a man can be found. Wrath is heavy in itself; God's wrath is crushing beyond conception, and when that presses hard the soul is oppressed indeed. The wrath of God is the very hell of hell, and when it weighs upon the conscience a man feels a torment such as only that of damned spirits can exceed. Joy or peace, or even numbness of indifference, there can be none to one who is loaded with this most tremendous of burdens.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month.…
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
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John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
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Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
