Psalms 38:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
  • Luke 23:49 : 49 And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
  • Job 19:13-17 : 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. 14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. 15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. 16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
  • Luke 10:31-32 : 31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side. 32 And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.
  • Luke 22:54 : 54 And they made him a prisoner and took him away to the house of the high priest. But Peter went after them at a distance.
  • Job 6:21-23 : 21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear. 22 Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth? 23 Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?
  • Ps 88:18 : 18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
  • Isa 53:4 : 4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
  • John 16:32 : 32 See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    81%

    13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

    14My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

    15I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

  • Job 19:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

    20My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

    21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

  • Ps 38:5-10
    6 verses
    77%

    5My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

    7For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

    8I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

    10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • Ps 38:12
    76%

    12Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

  • Ps 88:18
    76%

    18You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

  • Ps 88:8
    76%

    8You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • Ps 38:21
    74%

    21Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

  • Ps 41:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

    8They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

    9Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

  • Job 16:20
    74%

    20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • Ps 35:15
    73%

    15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Job 30:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

    11For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

  • Ps 71:10
    73%

    10For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • Ps 69:20
    72%

    20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Lam 1:21
    72%

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • Ps 22:19
    71%

    19Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Lam 1:19
    71%

    19I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

  • Ps 38:17
    71%

    17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Job 17:7
    71%

    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Ps 6:7
    71%

    7My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

  • Jer 20:10
    71%

    10For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • Lam 3:11
    71%

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 102:8
    71%

    8My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Ps 142:4
    71%

    4Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

  • Lam 1:16
    71%

    16For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • Job 30:18
    71%

    18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • Ps 22:11
    71%

    11Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

  • Jer 30:14
    71%

    14Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

  • Ps 25:19
    71%

    19See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • Prov 19:7
    71%

    7All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...

  • Ps 55:4
    71%

    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 38:19
    71%

    19But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

  • Ps 41:5
    70%

    5My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

  • Ps 10:1
    70%

    1Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?