Psalms 88:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:11 : 11 Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
  • Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.
  • Job 19:12-15 : 12 His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent. 13 Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. 14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

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  • Ps 88:5-9
    5 verses
    82%

    5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

    6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

    7Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.(Selah)

    8You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

    9My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O LORD, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

    14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

    15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

  • Ps 38:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

    11Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

  • Job 19:19
    76%

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

  • Ps 88:14
    74%

    14O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

  • Ps 88:16-17
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    72%

    16Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

    17They surround me like water all day long; they join forces and encircle me.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

    3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • Ps 55:13
    70%

    13But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    70%

    29Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.

  • Ps 38:21
    69%

    21Do not abandon me, O LORD! My God, do not remain far away from me!

  • Lam 3:17
    69%

    17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Ps 18:28
    69%

    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 13:24
    69%

    24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • Job 17:12
    69%

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Job 23:17
    69%

    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Ps 31:11
    68%

    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

  • Ps 22:19
    68%

    19But you, O LORD, do not remain far away! You are my source of strength! Hurry and help me!

  • Ps 22:1
    68%

    1For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

  • Ps 89:38
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    38But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.

  • Ps 43:2
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    2For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

  • Ps 42:9
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    9I will pray to God, my high ridge:“Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

  • Isa 38:12
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    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Ps 41:9
    68%

    9Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

  • Job 18:18
    68%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • Ps 89:49
    68%

    49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

  • Ps 89:44
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    44You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.

  • Job 16:20
    67%

    20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

  • Ps 17:9
    67%

    9Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.

  • Ps 69:19-20
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    67%

    19You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

  • Ps 55:3
    67%

    3because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

  • Ps 142:4
    67%

    4Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

  • Job 19:11
    67%

    11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.