King James Version
Psalms 88:7 in the King James Version says “Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 88 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.”
Psalms 88:7 · KJV
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. from: or, by
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“lieth hard”
H5564to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“upon me and thou hast afflicted”
H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
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