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Upon meעָלַיyour furyחֲמָתֶךָhas leaned,סָמְכָהand with allוְכָלyour breakersמִשְׁבָּרֶיךָyou have afflicted me.עִנִּיתָSelah.סֶּלָה
Psalms 88:7
Study it in the app“Upon me your fury has leaned, and with all your breakers you have afflicted me. Selah.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 88:7, word by word
- your furyחֲמָתֶchamate
fury
Literally "heat": burning anger, of a person or of YHWH.
Where else “chamate” appears- has leanedסָמְכָהsamcha
lean on
To rest one's weight on something or someone so as not to fall; to support.
Where else “samcha” appears- your breakersמִשְׁבָּרֶיmishbare
breaker, wave
A large breaking wave; the breakers of the sea. It is used as an image of an overwhelming danger.
Where else “mishbare” appears- you have afflicted meעִנִּיתָinita
afflict
To make suffer, oppress.
Where else “inita” appears- Selahסֶּלָהsela
Selah
Selah: a word found at the end of some stanzas of the psalms. It is probably a direction for the music or a pause; its exact sense is unknown, so it is left in Hebrew.
Where else “sela” appears
The context
6You have put me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths.
7 · This verse (above)
8You have put far my acquaintances from me; you have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in, and I will not go out.