Psalm 88:17 {87:18}
Good News Translation
All day long they surround me like a flood; they close in on me from every side.

New Revised Standard Version
They surround me like a flood all day long; from all sides they close in on me.

Contemporary English Version
that strike each day and from every side.

New American Bible
All day they surge round like a flood; from every side they encircle me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

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Psalm 22:16 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:1,2 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Job 16:12,13 I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. . . .

Job 30:14,15 They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries. . . .

Lamentations 3:5-7 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour. . . .

Matthew 27:39-44 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, . . .

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Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
16Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. 17They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.18Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.…
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

Psalm 17:11
They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.

Psalm 22:12
Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

Psalm 22:16
For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Psalm 118:10
All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.

Psalm 118:11
Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.

Psalm 124:4
Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Psalm 88:16
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