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Psalm 88

Psa. 88:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thoui hast put away
rachaq (Hebrew #7368)
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
KJV usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Pronounce: raw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
mine acquaintance
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
far
rachaq (Hebrew #7368)
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
KJV usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Pronounce: raw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
from me; thou hast made
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
me an abomination
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
unto them: I aml shut up
kala' (Hebrew #3607)
to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)
KJV usage: finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
, and I cannot come forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Job 19:13• 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me. (Job 19:13)
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Job 12:14• 14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. (Job 12:14)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 88:18• 18Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness. (Psa. 88:18)
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Psa. 31:11• 11More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me. (Psa. 31:11)
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Psa. 143:4• 4And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. (Psa. 143:4)
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1 Sam. 23:18‑20• 18And they two made a covenant before Jehovah; and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
 19And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?
 20And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand. (1 Sam. 23:18‑20)
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Job 19:13‑19• 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
 15The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
 16I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
 17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.
 18Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. (Job 19:13‑19)
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John 11:57• 57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him. (John 11:57)
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Isa. 49:7• 7Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. (Isa. 49:7)
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Isa. 63:3• 3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel. (Isa. 63:3)
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Zech. 11:8• 8And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me. (Zech. 11:8)
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Matt. 27:21‑25• 21And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.
 22Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.
 23And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.
 24And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see *ye* to it.
 25And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children. (Matt. 27:21‑25)
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John 15:23‑24• 23He that hates me hates also my Father.
 24If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. (John 15:23‑24)
I am shut.
Job 12:14• 14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. (Job 12:14)
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Job 19:8• 8He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (Job 19:8)
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Lam. 3:7‑9• 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
 8Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. (Lam. 3:7‑9)
• It was nature without its sustainment, nature with death pressed on it, that is, its destruction and end. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 88-89” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 8-9) Moreover there is the consciousness that sin not only separates from God, but that sin makes the person an object of loathing to his acquaintance. That it shuts the soul up in an awful loneliness from which he cannot come forth. (“Psalms 88” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.