Psalm 88:15 {87:16}
Good News Translation
Ever since I was young, I have suffered and been near death; I am worn out from the burden of your punishments.

New Revised Standard Version
Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.

Contemporary English Version
Ever since I was a child, I have been sick and close to death. You have terrified me and made me helpless.

New American Bible
I have been mortally afflicted since youth; I have borne your terrors and I am made numb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

afflicted

Psalm 73:14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

Job 17:1,11-16 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me. . . .

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

while

Psalm 22:14,15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. . . .

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 7:11-16 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. . . .

Isaiah 53:10 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.

Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
14Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? 15I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.16Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.…
Cross References
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 31:23
For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Psalm 129:1
A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

Proverbs 24:11
Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver.

Isaiah 28:19
Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.

Jeremiah 17:17
Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

Lamentations 3:1
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

Psalm 88:14
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