Psalms 88:18

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They surround me all day long like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My heart throbs, my strength has left me; even the light of my eyes—it has also gone from me.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Ps 31:11 : 11 My life is consumed with grief and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.
  • Job 19:12-15 : 12 His troops assemble together; they raise a siege against me and encamp around my dwelling. 13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me. 14 My relatives have ceased to be close, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

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  • Ps 88:5-9
    5 verses
    82%

    5I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.

    6Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

    7You have placed me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

    8Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.

    9You have taken my closest friends from me; you have made me a horror to them. I am confined and cannot escape.

  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

    14My relatives have ceased to be close, and my close friends have forgotten me.

    15The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

  • Ps 38:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10O Lord, all my desires are before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

    11My heart throbs, my strength has left me; even the light of my eyes—it has also gone from me.

  • Job 19:19
    76%

    19All my close friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

  • Ps 88:14
    74%

    14But I, LORD, cry to you for help; in the morning, my prayer comes before you.

  • Ps 88:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16I have been afflicted and close to death since my youth; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.

    17Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • Ps 55:13
    70%

    13For it is not an enemy who insults me—then I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who has exalted himself against me—then I could hide from him.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    70%

    29For you are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD illumines my darkness.

  • Ps 38:21
    69%

    21Those who repay evil for good oppose me because I follow what is good.

  • Lam 3:17
    69%

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Ps 18:28
    69%

    28You save a humble people, but You bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

  • Lam 3:11
    69%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Job 13:24
    69%

    24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • Job 17:12
    69%

    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 23:17
    69%

    17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Ps 31:11
    68%

    11My life is consumed with grief and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

  • Ps 22:19
    68%

    19They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

  • Ps 22:1
    68%

    1For the director, to the tune of 'The Doe of the Morning,' a psalm of David.

  • Ps 89:38
    68%

    38Like the moon, it will be established forever, a faithful witness in the sky. Selah

  • Ps 43:2
    68%

    2For You are the God of my refuge; why have You rejected me? Why must I go about mourning under the oppression of my enemy?

  • Ps 42:9
    68%

    9By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.

  • Isa 38:12
    68%

    12My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Ps 41:9
    68%

    9They say, 'A vile disease has overtaken him, and he will never rise again from where he lies.'

  • Job 18:18
    68%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • Ps 89:49
    68%

    49Who can live and not see death? Who can escape the power of the grave? Selah

  • Ps 89:44
    68%

    44You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.

  • Job 16:20
    67%

    20My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.

  • Ps 17:9
    67%

    9Protect me from the wicked who attack me, from my life’s enemies who surround me.

  • Ps 69:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19Come near to my soul and redeem it; because of my enemies, ransom me.

    20You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

  • Ps 55:3
    67%

    3Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

  • Ps 142:4
    67%

    4When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Job 19:11
    67%

    11His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.