Psalms 88:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.
  • Jer 32:2 : 2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
  • Matt 27:21-25 : 21 But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas. 22 Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross. 23 And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! 24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. 25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
  • John 11:57 : 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 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. 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
  • Isa 63:3 : 3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
  • 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.
  • Ps 142:4 : 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.
  • Ps 143:4 : 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
  • 1 Sam 23:18-20 : 18 And the two of them made an agreement before the Lord: and David went on living in Horesh, and Jonathan went back to his house. 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land? 20 So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 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. 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. 19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

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

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

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    3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    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.

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    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.

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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.

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    9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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

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

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