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Psalms 88:15

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Psalms 88:15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 88:15

Theological / Devotional

From my youth up. This phrase may imply that the psalmist was smitten at an early age and has suffered for many years, or it may be the hyperbolic language of deep emotion: his suffering is so intense that his remembrance of it seems to go back to his youth.

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