Psalm 88:8

Easy To Read Version

My friends have left me.\par They all avoid me like a person\par no one wants to touch.\par I am locked in the house\par and I can’t go out.\par

Cross References

Job 12:14

If God tears down anything,\par people can’t build it again.\par If God puts a person in prison,\par people can’t free the person.\par

Job 19:8

God has blocked my way\par so I can’t go through.\par He has hidden my path in darkness.\par

Job 30:10

Those young men hate me,\par they stand away from me,\par they think they are better than me.\par They even spit in my face!\par

Psalm 142:4

I look around,\par and I don’t see any of my friends.\par I have no place to run.\par No person is trying to save me.\par

Psalm 143:4

I am ready to give up.\par I am losing my courage.\par

Psalm 31:11

My enemies hate me.\par And all my neighbors hate me, too.\par All my relatives see me in the street.\par They are afraid of me and avoid me.\par

Psalm 42:8

Every day the Lord shows his true love\par and every night, I have a song for him,\par a prayer for my Living God.\par

Psalm 88:18

And Lord, you forced all my friends\par and loved ones to leave me.\par Only darkness stayed to be with me.\par

Isaiah 49:7

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel,\par the Protector of Israel says,\par “My Servant is humble.\par He serves rulers.\par But people hate him.\par But, kings will see him,\par and stand \{to honor him\}.\par Great leaders will bow down to him.”\par

Isaiah 63:3

\{He answers,\}\par “I walked in the winepress {\cf2\super [459]} by myself.\par No one helped me.\par I was angry and I walked on the grapes.\par The juice {\cf2\super [460]} splashed on my clothes.\par So now my clothes are dirty.\par

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was surrounding the city of Jerusalem. And Jeremiah was under arrest in the courtyard of the guard. This courtyard was at the palace of the king of Judah.

Zechariah 11:8

I fired the three shepherds all in one month. I became angry at the sheep, and they began to hate me.

John 11:57

But the leading priests and the Pharisees {\cf2\super [188]} had given a special order about Jesus. They said that if any person knew where Jesus was, the person must tell them. Then the leading priests and the Pharisees could arrest Jesus.