My friends thou hast put far from me, and him that did me love; And those that mine acquaintance were to darkness didst remove.
Thou hast put far from me my friends, thou mad'st them to abhor me; And I am so shut up, that I find no evasion for me.
My lovers and my friends do stand at distance from my sore; And those do stand aloof that were kinsmen and kind before.
I was a scorn to all my foes, and to my friends a fear; And specially reproach'd of those that were my neighbours near: When they me saw they from me fled.
The nations, joining all in one, did compass me about: But in the Lord's most holy name I shall them all root out.
They compass'd me about; I say, they compass'd me about: But in the Lord's most holy name I shall them all root out.