Psalms 88:8

God is glorified in the council of the saints; 1 Great and terrible toward all that are round about him. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

In Context

7For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? 1 And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? 1

9O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? 1 Thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. 1

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Cross References

Job 12:14If he should cast down, who will build up? 1 If he should shut up against men, who shall open? 1

Job 19:13My brethren have stood aloof from me; 1 They have recognized strangers rather than me: 1 And my friends have become pitiless. 1

Psalms 31:11Be glad in the Lord, and exult, ye righteous: 1 And glory, all ye that are upright in heart.

Psalms 88:18For thou art the boast of their strength; 1 And in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted, 1

Psalms 143:4Man is like to vanity: 1 His days pass as a shadow. 1

Isaiah 63:3I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

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 →

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