Psalms 88:8
You have put my friends far from me, you have made them shun me. I am shut in, and cannot escape,
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In Context
7Your wrath lies heavy upon me, waves of your anger roll over me. Selah
9my eyes are wasted with sorrow. I call on you, Lord, every day, spreading my hands out to you.
Cross References
Psalms 31:11The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away.
Psalms 88:18Those who love me you put far from me; the dark is my only friend.
Psalms 143:4My spirit is faint within me, my heart is bewildered within me.
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 →