Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.
Cross References
Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
Psalms 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
Psalms 143:4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained 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 →