Psalms 88:18
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
BSB
ASV
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
KJV
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
"Thou hast put far from me friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances because of misery." Because of the confusion of the passion, even the apostles themselves were put far from him.
Lover and friend: hast thou put far from me. Even when they are near me bodily, they are so unable to swim with me in such deep waters, that they stand like men far away on the shore while I am buffeted with the billows; but, alas, they shun me, the dearest lover of all is afraid of such a distracted one, and those who took counsel with me avoid me now! The Lord Jesus knew the meaning of this in all its wormwood and gall when in his passion.
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Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
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Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father…
Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
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Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
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Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 31:11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
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My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
