Psalm 88:18 {87:19}
Good News Translation
You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.

New Revised Standard Version
You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me; my companions are in darkness.

Contemporary English Version
My friends and neighbors have turned against me because of you, and now darkness is my only companion.

New American Bible
Because of you friend and neighbor shun me; my only friend is darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Psalm 88:8 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:

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 38:11 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Job 19:12-15 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. . . .

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Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
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
Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

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 38:11
My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Psalm 88:8
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:

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.

Isaiah 51:18
There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.

Psalm 88:17
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