Psalms 88:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
  • Ps 88:8 : 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 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.
  • Job 19:12-15 : 12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 88:5-9
    5 verses
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    5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

    6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

    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.

    9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Ps 38:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

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

  • 14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

  • Ps 88:16-17
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    72%

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

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

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

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

  • 13 But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

  • 29 For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

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

  • 17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • 28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

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

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 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.

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

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • 38 But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

  • 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • 12 My 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 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

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

  • 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • 44 You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

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

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

  • Ps 69:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19 You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

    20 My 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.

  • 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.

  • 4 Looking 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.

  • 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.