Thy fierce wrath goeth over me,.... Or "wraths" , 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 over him, threatening to overwhelm him, Ps 89:38,thy terrors have cut me off; from the presence of God, and out of his sight; as sometimes the Lord's people are ready to imagine, when forsaken by him, Ps 31:22 or from the land of the living, as the Messiah was, and in a judicial way, though not for any sin of his own, Isa 53:8.
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Psalms 88:16
Psalms 88:16
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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