“I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.”
The affliction is lifelong: "Wretched and close to death from my youth, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate." The supplicant claims that suffering has characterized the entire life from youth. The terrors attributed to God suggest that God is experienced as the source of affliction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:15
1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi: and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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