Psalms 88:8
You have put my acquaintance far from me, || You have made me an abomination to them, || Shut up—I do not go forth.
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In Context
7Your fury has lain on me, || And You have afflicted [with] all Your breakers. Selah.
Cross References
Job 12:14Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, || He shuts against a man, || And it is not opened.
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11I have been a reproach among all my adversaries, || And to my neighbors exceedingly, || And a fear to my acquaintances, || Those seeing me without—fled from me.
Psalms 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, || My acquaintance [is] the place of darkness!
Psalms 143:4And my spirit has become feeble in me, || My heart has become desolate within me.
Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden a wine vat by Myself, || And of the peoples there is no one with Me, || And I tread them in My anger, || And I trample them in My fury, || Their strength is sprinkled on My garments, || And I have defiled all My clothing.
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 →