Psalms 88 cross-references
Psalms 88 has 18 verses, which point to 203 other passages and are cited by 169. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
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[A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Points to (27)
- Isaiah 12:2 — Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my… 8 votes
- Psalms 22:2 — O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 7 votes
- Luke 18:7 — And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 6 votes
- Psalms 86:3 — Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 5 votes
- Titus 3:4–7 — But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 4 votes
- Psalms 53:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.] The fool hath said in his heart, There is… 4 votes
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- Psalms 25:5 — Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 18 votes
- Romans 8:26 — Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but… 12 votes
- Luke 18:7 — And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 12 votes
- Jonah 2:2 — And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried… 8 votes
Psalms 88:2
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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- Psalms 31:2 — Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 7 votes
- Psalms 141:1–2 — [A Psalm of David.] LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 5 votes
- Lamentations 3:8 — Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 4 votes
- Psalms 79:11 — Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those… 3 votes
- 1 Kings 8:31 — If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath… 2 votes
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- Psalms 17:6 — I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. 9 votes
- Psalms 102:2 — Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call… 4 votes
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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- Psalms 107:18 — Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 6 votes
- Mark 14:33–34 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 4 votes
- Lamentations 3:15–19 — He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 4 votes
- Matthew 26:37–39 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 3 votes
- Isaiah 53:10–11 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering… 3 votes
- Isaiah 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our… 3 votes
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- John 12:27 — Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto… 5 votes
- Psalms 107:18 — Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 5 votes
- Job 17:1 — My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 4 votes
- Psalms 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 3 votes
Psalms 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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- Psalms 28:1 — [A Psalm of David.] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me,… 8 votes
- 2 Corinthians 1:9 — But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which… 6 votes
- Isaiah 38:17–18 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of… 4 votes
- Psalms 143:7 — Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down… 4 votes
- Psalms 31:12 — I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 4 votes
- 2 Corinthians 13:4 — For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him,… 3 votes
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- Psalms 28:1 — [A Psalm of David.] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me,… 11 votes
- Psalms 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell… 6 votes
- Psalms 31:12 — I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 5 votes
- Numbers 12:12 — Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. 5 votes
Psalms 88:5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
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- Isaiah 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of… 6 votes
- Psalms 31:22 — For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my… 5 votes
- Isaiah 14:9–12 — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all… 3 votes
- Psalms 136:23 — Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever: 3 votes
- Ezekiel 32:18–32 — Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous… 2 votes
- Isaiah 38:10–12 — I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of… 2 votes
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- Lamentations 3:6 — He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 5 votes
- Romans 7:24 — O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 2 votes
- Psalms 88:12 — Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 2 votes
- Jonah 2:3 — For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy… 1 votes
Psalms 88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Points to (12)
- Psalms 69:15 — Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth… 5 votes
- Psalms 86:13 — For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 4 votes
- John 12:46 — I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:2 — He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 votes
- Psalms 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell… 3 votes
- Psalms 40:2 — He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and… 3 votes
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- Psalms 86:13 — For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 7 votes
- Psalms 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 6 votes
- Psalms 69:2 — I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 6 votes
- Psalms 130:1 — [A Song of degrees.] Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. 3 votes
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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- Psalms 42:7 — Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 5 votes
- 1 Peter 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto… 3 votes
- Romans 2:5–9 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and… 3 votes
- Job 6:4 — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do… 3 votes
- Revelation 6:16–17 — And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,… 2 votes
- John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but… 2 votes
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- Psalms 42:7 — Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 9 votes
- Lamentations 3:1 — I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 5 votes
- Mark 14:50 — And they all forsook him, and fled. 3 votes
- Psalms 38:1 — [A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy… 2 votes
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.
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- Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:… 5 votes
- Isaiah 49:7 — Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the… 4 votes
- Job 30:10 — They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 4 votes
- John 15:23–24 — He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 3 votes
- Zechariah 11:8 — Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:7–9 — He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 3 votes
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- Proverbs 19:7 — All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with… 7 votes
- Psalms 88:18 — Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. 6 votes
- Job 19:13 — He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 6 votes
- Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:… 5 votes
Psalms 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Points to (16)
- Job 11:13 — If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 7 votes
- Psalms 86:3 — Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 5 votes
- Psalms 38:10 — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 5 votes
- Psalms 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. 4 votes
- Psalms 42:3 — My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 3 votes
- John 11:35 — Jesus wept. 2 votes
Pointed to from (11)
- Psalms 86:3 — Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 9 votes
- Job 11:13 — If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 9 votes
- Psalms 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. 8 votes
- Psalms 31:9 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 6 votes
Psalms 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
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- Isaiah 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:… 7 votes
- Psalms 6:5 — For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? 7 votes
- Isaiah 38:18–19 — For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope… 5 votes
- Psalms 30:9 — What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy… 5 votes
- 1 Corinthians 15:52–57 — In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall… 4 votes
- Mark 5:35–36 — While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is… 3 votes
Pointed to from (10)
- Psalms 6:5 — For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? 27 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 — For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a… 16 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor… 11 votes
- Psalms 115:17 — The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 11 votes
Psalms 88:11
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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- Proverbs 15:11 — Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? 3 votes
- 2 Peter 2:1 — But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who… 2 votes
- Romans 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the… 2 votes
- Matthew 7:13 — Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and… 2 votes
- Psalms 73:18 — Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 2 votes
- Psalms 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live… 2 votes
Pointed to from (3)
- Psalms 89:1 — [Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.] I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make… 4 votes
- Job 10:21 — Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 3 votes
- Job 35:15 — But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: 2 votes
Psalms 88:12
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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- Ecclesiastes 9:5 — For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a… 6 votes
- Matthew 8:12 — But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of… 3 votes
- Jude 1:13 — Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of… 2 votes
- Isaiah 8:22 — And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 — And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:16 — For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days… 2 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- Ecclesiastes 2:16 — For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days… 3 votes
- Job 10:22 — A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is… 3 votes
Psalms 88:13
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
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- Psalms 5:3 — My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will… 12 votes
- Mark 1:35 — And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and… 9 votes
- Psalms 30:2 — O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 8 votes
- Psalms 119:147–148 — I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 6 votes
Pointed to from (8)
- Psalms 5:3 — My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will… 36 votes
- Psalms 30:2 — O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 12 votes
- Psalms 55:17 — Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. 11 votes
- Psalms 59:16 — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my… 9 votes
Psalms 88:14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Points to (8)
- Job 13:24 — Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 7 votes
- Psalms 13:1 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou… 5 votes
- Psalms 44:24 — Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 4 votes
- Psalms 43:2 — For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression… 4 votes
- Matthew 27:46 — And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say,… 3 votes
- Psalms 77:7–9 — Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 2 votes
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- Psalms 10:1 — Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 5 votes
- Proverbs 18:14 — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? 4 votes
- Job 13:24 — Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 4 votes
- Matthew 26:38 — And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let… 3 votes
Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Points to (10)
- Job 6:4 — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do… 7 votes
- Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling… 5 votes
- Isaiah 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering… 4 votes
- Psalms 73:14 — For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 4 votes
- Job 7:11–16 — Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the… 4 votes
- Zechariah 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite… 3 votes
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- Jeremiah 17:17 — Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 6 votes
- Psalms 31:10 — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and… 6 votes
- Job 6:4 — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do… 6 votes
- Ruth 1:20 — And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 5 votes
Psalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Points to (11)
- Revelation 6:17 — For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 3 votes
- Galatians 3:13 — Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is… 3 votes
- Romans 8:32 — He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give… 2 votes
- Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the… 2 votes
- Isaiah 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of… 2 votes
- Isaiah 53:4–6 — Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and… 2 votes
Pointed to from (4)
- Psalms 31:22 — For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my… 6 votes
- Job 23:16 — For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 3 votes
- Psalms 88:5 — Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut… 2 votes
- Job 33:7 — Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. 2 votes
Psalms 88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Points to (10)
- Psalms 22:16 — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 6 votes
- Psalms 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 3 votes
- Psalms 69:1–2 — [To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my… 3 votes
- Matthew 27:39–44 — And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 2 votes
- Lamentations 3:5–7 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 2 votes
- Psalms 124:4 — Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 2 votes
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- Psalms 118:11 — They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 8 votes
- Psalms 118:10 — All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. 4 votes
- Psalms 109:3 — They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 3 votes
- Hosea 5:10 — The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like… 2 votes
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Points to (4)
- Psalms 88:8 — Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up,… 6 votes
- Psalms 38:11 — My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 5 votes
- Job 19:12–15 — His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. 4 votes
- Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:… 3 votes
Pointed to from (12)
- Psalms 142:4 — I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man… 7 votes
- Matthew 26:31 — Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will… 6 votes
- Proverbs 19:7 — All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with… 5 votes
- Job 19:13 — He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 5 votes