Psalms 88:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
Job 19:12-15 : 12 His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 88:5-9
5 verses
82%
5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {H5542}
8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Job 19:13-15
3 verses
79%
13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Ps 38:10-11
2 verses
76%
10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Job 19:19
76%
19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Ps 88:14
74%
14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
Ps 88:16-17
2 verses
72%
16Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
17They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
Job 19:8-9
2 verses
72%
8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
71%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Lam 3:6
71%
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lam 3:2-3
2 verses
71%
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
Ps 55:13
70%
13But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
2 Sam 22:29
70%
29For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.
Ps 38:21
69%
21Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.
Lam 3:17
69%
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Ps 18:28
69%
28For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
Lam 3:11
69%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Job 13:24
69%
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
Job 17:12
69%
12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
Job 23:17
69%
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Ps 31:11
68%
11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
Ps 22:19
68%
19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.
Ps 22:1
68%
1For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?
Ps 89:38
68%
38But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
Ps 43:2
68%
2For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Ps 42:9
68%
9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Isa 38:12
68%
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Ps 139:11-12
2 verses
68%
11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].
Ps 41:9
68%
9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.
Job 18:18
68%
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
Ps 89:49
68%
49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
Ps 89:44
68%
44Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.
Job 16:20
67%
20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Ps 17:9
67%
9From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
Ps 69:19-20
2 verses
67%
19Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Ps 55:3
67%
3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.
Ps 142:4
67%
4Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
Job 19:11
67%
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.