John Gill Commentary Psalms 88:16

"Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off." — Psalms 88:16 (ASV)

Your fierce wrath goes over me
Or "wraths" ^F8 , 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, (Psalms 89:38) ,

your 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, (Psalms 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, (Isaiah 53:8) (Daniel 9:26) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: (Kynwrx) "irae tuae", Pagninus, Montanus; "furores tui", Musculus, Tigurine version.