If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
Psalm 88:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, And I cannot come forth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Common English Bible You’ve made my friends distant. You’ve made me disgusting to them. I can’t escape. I’m trapped! Catholic Public Domain Version God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. |
If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
Look on my right hand and see: there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.
I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me; my companions are in darkness.
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the slave of rulers, “Kings shall see and stand up; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their juice spattered on my garments, and I stained all my robes.
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah,
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.