Psalms 88:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalms 88:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:8
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.
Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Job 19:12-15
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. …
Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-18)

In these verses, I. The psalmist expostulates with God concerning the present deplorable condition he was in (Ps. 88:10-12): “ Wilt thou do a miraculous work to the dead, and raise them to life again? Shall those that are dead and buried rise up to praise thee? No; they leave it to their children to rise up in their room to praise God; none expects that they should do it; and wherefore should they…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. into darkness--Better omit “into”--“mine acquaintances (are) darkness,” the gloom of death, &c. (Job 17:13, 14).