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
    82%

    5My 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.

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

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

    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.

    9My 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%

    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.

  • Ps 38:10-11
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    76%

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

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

  • Job 19:19
    76%

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

  • Ps 88:14
    74%

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

  • Ps 88:16-17
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    72%

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

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

  • Job 19:8-9
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    72%

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

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

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3The 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.

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

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

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

  • Ps 55:13
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    13But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
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    29For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

  • Ps 38:21
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    21Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

  • Lam 3:17
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    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Ps 18:28
    69%

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

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 13:24
    69%

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

  • Job 17:12
    69%

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

  • Job 23:17
    69%

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

  • Ps 31:11
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    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 22:19
    68%

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

  • Ps 22:1
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    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?

  • Ps 89:38
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    38But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

  • Ps 43:2
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    2You 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?

  • Ps 42:9
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    9I 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?

  • Isa 38:12
    68%

    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 139:11-12
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    68%

    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

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

  • Ps 41:9
    68%

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

  • Job 18:18
    68%

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

  • Ps 89:49
    68%

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

  • Ps 89:44
    68%

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

  • Job 16:20
    67%

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

  • Ps 17:9
    67%

    9From 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%

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

    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.

  • Ps 55:3
    67%

    3I 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.

  • Ps 142:4
    67%

    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.

  • Job 19:11
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    11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.