Psalm 88:8 {87:9}
Good News Translation
You have caused my friends to abandon me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am closed in and cannot escape;

New Revised Standard Version
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Contemporary English Version
You have made my friends turn in horror from me. I am a prisoner who cannot escape,

New American Bible
Because of you my acquaintances shun me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot escape;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

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Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

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Psalm 88:18 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Psalm 31:11 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 143:4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

1 Samuel 23:18-20 And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood: but Jonathan returned to his house. . . .

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

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Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel.

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Matthew 27:21-25 And the governor answering, said to them: Whether will you of the two to be released unto you? But they said: Barabbas. . . .

John 15:23,24 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. . . .

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Job 12:14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Job 19:8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

Lamentations 3:7-9 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. . . .

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
7Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. 8Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:9My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.…
Cross References
Job 3:23
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

Job 19:19
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

Job 30:10
They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

Psalm 31:11
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 88:18
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Psalm 142:4
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

Psalm 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.

Jeremiah 32:2
At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of Juda.

Jeremiah 36:5
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and cannot go into the house of the Lord.

Psalm 88:7
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