Psalm 88:8

New English Translation

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Job 30:10

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Psalm 142:4

Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

Psalm 143:4

My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

Psalm 31:11

Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering – those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

Psalm 42:8

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

Psalm 88:18

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.

Isaiah 49:7

This is what the Lord, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers: “Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful Lord, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 63:3

“I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself; no one from the nations joined me. I stomped on them in my anger; I trampled them down in my rage. Their juice splashed on my garments, and stained all my clothes.

Zechariah 11:8

Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.

John 11:57

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)