Psalm 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 88:3, the same psalmist describes his soul full of troubles and near death, reinforcing the lifelong affliction.
Psalm 73:14 describes being stricken all day long, similar to the psalmist's lifelong affliction here.
Psalm 22:14 echoes the same physical anguish — poured out like water, bones disjointed — mirroring the sufferer's terror.
Psalm 22:15 continues with dried strength and tongue cleaving — a parallel description of mortal distress.
Psalm 55:5 expresses fearfulness, trembling, and horror overwhelming, directly matching the psalmist's terror and distraction.
Psalm 42:7 uses overwhelming waters as an image of God's waves, similar to the psalmist's being overwhelmed by terrors.
Psalm 109:22 laments being poor, needy, and wounded — echoing the personal despair of Psalm 88:15.
Psalm 38:1 pleads not to be rebuked in wrath, reflecting the psalmist's sense of suffering under God's terrors.
Psalm 18:5 describes being compassed by sorrows of death, similar to the psalmist's near-death affliction, though Psalm 18 is a deliverance song.
Psalm 25:16 cries for mercy as one desolate and afflicted, paralleling the psalmist's plea from lifelong suffering.
Psalm 31:10 laments life spent with grief and failing strength, echoing the psalmist's wasting away from terrors.
Job 6:4 uses the same 'terrors of God' imagery with arrows and poison, showing a shared experience of divine assault.
Isaiah 53:3 describes the suffering servant as acquainted with grief, typifying the psalmist's affliction as messianic.
Job 17:11-16 despairs of hope and faces Sheol, mirroring the psalmist's helplessness and terror.
Job 17:1 laments a broken spirit and near death, directly paralleling the psalmist's affliction from youth.
Job 7:11-16 expresses the same despair and longing for death — a parallel to the sufferer's readiness to die.
Job 30:15 directly parallels 'terrors are turned upon me' and pursuit of soul, matching the psalmist's experience of divine terrors.
Job 9:18 describes God filling him with bitterness and not letting him breathe — a parallel to suffocating terror.
Lamentations 3:1 directly mirrors affliction from God's rod of wrath — a strong thematic echo of the psalmist's suffering.
Jeremiah 17:17 pleads for God not to be a terror, contrasting with the psalmist's declaration of bearing God's terrors.
In Job 16:6, the same frustration with unrelieved suffering appears — speaking does not ease grief, mirroring the psalmist's ongoing affliction.
Isaiah 51:20 depicts God's people fainting under His fury — a national parallel to the individual experience of God's terrors.
Ruth 1:20 has Naomi saying God dealt bitterly with her — a parallel to attributing terrors to God.