16 Your wrath sweeps over me;
Your terrors destroy me.(A)
17 They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.(B)
18 You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:18 Or from me, my friends. Oh darkness!

16 Your wrath(A) has swept over me;
    your terrors(B) have destroyed me.
17 All day long they surround me like a flood;(C)
    they have completely engulfed me.
18 You have taken from me friend(D) and neighbor—
    darkness is my closest friend.

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