Psalms 88:18

American Standard Version (1901)

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
  • Job 19:12-15 : 12 His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 88:5-9
    5 verses
    82%

    5 Cast off 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 dark places, in the deeps.

    7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah

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

    9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

    14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

    15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

  • Ps 38:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

    11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • 19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • 14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Ps 88:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

    17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

    9 He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

    3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

  • 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

  • 29 For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

  • 21 Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.

  • 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • 28 For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

  • 12 They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • 19 But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

  • 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?

  • 38 But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

  • 2 For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

    12 Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

  • 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

  • 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • 49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

  • 44 Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.

  • 20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.

  • Ps 69:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

    20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

  • 4 Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

  • 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.