Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
Cross References
Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
Psalms 88:18Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
Psalms 143:4And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Isaiah 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.
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 →