Psalms 88:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck. 2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 118:10-12 : 10 All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. 11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. 12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
  • Ps 124:4 : 4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
  • Lam 3:5-7 : 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
  • Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
  • Job 30:14-15 : 14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack. 15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 30:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

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

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

    15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

  • Ps 17:9
    78%

    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 118:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Ps 88:16
    77%

    16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • Ps 56:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 88:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

    8 You 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 109:3
    76%

    3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

  • Jonah 2:5
    75%

    5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

  • Job 19:12
    75%

    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

  • Ps 18:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

    5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Ps 102:8
    73%

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

  • Lam 3:5
    73%

    5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

  • Lam 3:3
    73%

    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • Ps 22:16
    73%

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

    6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Ps 22:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

  • Job 16:10
    73%

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 88:18
    72%

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

  • Ps 17:11
    72%

    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 35:15
    72%

    15 But 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 16:13
    72%

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 56:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

    2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

  • Ps 38:12
    72%

    12 Those 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.

  • Job 19:19
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:53-54
    2 verses
    71%

    53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

    54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • Lam 3:14
    71%

    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Ps 18:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

    18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

  • Ps 55:3
    70%

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Lam 3:7
    70%

    7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • Ps 142:3
    70%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Lam 3:62
    70%

    62 The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

  • Lam 3:11
    70%

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

  • Lam 1:21
    70%

    21 Give 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 69:2
    69%

    2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

  • 2 Sam 22:19
    69%

    19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

  • Ps 73:14
    69%

    14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.