Psalms 88:8
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Cross References
Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Job 19:13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
Psalms 31:11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.
Psalms 88:18You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
Psalms 143:4My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
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 →