Psalms 88:8,18 - Compare All Versions

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You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape

You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend.

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them. I am in a trap with no way of escape.

You have taken away my companions and loved ones. Darkness is my closest friend.

You have distanced my friends from me; you have made me repulsive to them.  I am shut in and cannot go out.

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me; darkness is my only friend. 

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.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

You have put away my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot get out

Loved one and friend You have put far from me, And my acquaintances into darkness.

GOD, you’re my last chance of the day. I spend the night on my knees before you. Put me on your salvation agenda; take notes on the trouble I’m in. I’ve had my fill of trouble; I’m camped on the edge of hell. I’m written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case. Abandoned as already dead, one more body in a stack of corpses, And not so much as a gravestone— I’m a black hole in oblivion. You’ve dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss. I’m battered senseless by your rage, relentlessly pounded by your waves of anger. You turned my friends against me, made me horrible to them. I’m caught in a maze and can’t find my way out, blinded by tears of pain and frustration.

I’m standing my ground, GOD, shouting for help, at my prayers every morning, on my knees each daybreak. Why, GOD, do you turn a deaf ear? Why do you make yourself scarce? For as long as I remember I’ve been hurting; I’ve taken the worst you can hand out, and I’ve had it. Your wildfire anger has blazed through my life; I’m bleeding, black-and-blue. You’ve attacked me fiercely from every side, raining down blows till I’m nearly dead. You made lover and neighbor alike dump me; the only friend I have left is Darkness.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them; I am shut up and cannot go out.

You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in a hiding place.

You have put my friends far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them. I am shut up and I cannot go out.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me; My familiar friends are in darkness.

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.

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