Psalms 88:8
Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Cross References
Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.
Psalms 88:18Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.
Psalms 143:4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
Isaiah 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yea, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath, and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →