KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 88:7–8
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Psalms 88:7
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
7Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.
Psalms 88:8
8Thou 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.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 88:7
Intense anger or indignation; also judgment or punishment proceeding from such anger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Lies: reclines, rests, remains, or is situated; or speaks falsely, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Firm, difficult, severe, harsh, laborious, forceful, or resistant to pressure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moving ridges or swells of water; figuratively, overwhelming troubles or forces.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 88:8
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
acquaintance
Persons known to someone; familiar associates.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
abomination
An object that excites loathing; hence, an idol.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To close, fasten, or exclude; to become closed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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Open the full verse study24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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Open the full verse study4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Open the full verse study5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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Open the full verse study16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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Open the full verse study36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
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Open the full verse study3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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Open the full verse study10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
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Open the full verse study4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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Open the full verse study7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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Open the full verse study16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study11I 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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Open the full verse study7Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
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Open the full verse study10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Open the full verse study3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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Open the full verse study2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
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Open the full verse study13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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Open the full verse study23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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Open the full verse study7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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Open the full verse study8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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Open the full verse study18And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
19¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
20Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
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Open the full verse study14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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Open the full verse study8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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Open the full verse study57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
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Open the full verse study21The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
22Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24¶ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
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Open the full verse study4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
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Open the full verse study4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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Open the full verse study18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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