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Being Forsaken by friends » Instances of » David
More 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. I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
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.
Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
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For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him; But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ... We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
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.
Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not. They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom: read more.
I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother. But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.
I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother. But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.
He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant. Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.