Psalms 88:8
You have made my friends avoid me by making me look repulsive to them. I'm trapped, I can't go out.
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In Context
7Your hostility crushes me; you are drowning me under your crashing waves. Selah.
9I've cried my eyes out begging you every day for your help, Lord, holding out my hands to you.
Cross References
Job 12:14If he tears something down, nobody can rebuild it. If he imprisons someone, nobody can free them.
Job 19:13He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11I am ridiculed by my enemies, particularly by my neighbors. My friends dread meeting me; people who see me in the street run the other way.
Psalms 88:18You have made my family and friends avoid me. Darkness is my only friend.
Psalms 143:4I sense myself fading away inside; I am overwhelmed by a sense of desolation.
Isaiah 63:3I've been treading the winepress by myself; from the nations around no one came to help me. So in my anger I trod them down as if they were grapes, in my fury I trampled them. It's their blood that has stained my clothes.
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 →