Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- Ps 88:8 : 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
- Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
- Job 19:12-15 : 12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. 13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
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- Ps 88:5-95 verses82%
5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
- Job 19:13-153 verses79%
13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
- Ps 38:10-112 verses76%
10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
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14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
- Ps 88:16-172 verses72%
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
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8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
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13 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.
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29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
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21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.
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17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
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28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
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12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
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19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
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1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
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38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
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2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
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12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
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9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
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44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
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20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
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19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
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3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
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4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
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11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.