23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness
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You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.
Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace,
Especially to my neighbors,
And an object of dread to my acquaintances;
Those who see me on the street run from me.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.
“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.
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“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with words.
“My breath is repulsive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
“Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.
“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.
“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,
And do not refrain from spitting in my face.
For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.
For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,
“Terror on every side!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my familiar and trusted friends,
[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,
“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,
And take our revenge on him.”
He said, “I have been very zealous (impassioned) for the Lord God of hosts (armies) [proclaiming what is rightfully and uniquely His]; for the sons of Israel have abandoned (broken) Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I, only I, am left; and they seek to take away my life.”
Then all of His disciples abandoned Him and fled.
He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.
But all this has taken place so that the Scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
Take careful notice: an hour is coming, and has arrived, when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, leaving Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
He would have gladly eaten the [carob] pods that the pigs were eating [but they could not satisfy his hunger], and no one was giving anything to him.
The invalid answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am coming [to get into it myself], someone else steps down ahead of me.”
At my first trial no one supported me [as an advocate] or stood with me, but they all deserted me. May it not be counted against them [by God].
for Demas, having loved [the pleasures of] this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very helpful to me for the ministry.
Now the Lord God said, “It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him.”
When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bonded to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
I am a companion of all who [reverently] fear You,
And of those who keep and honor Your precepts.
“Now there was a certain rich man who was habitually dressed in expensive purple and fine linen, and celebrated and lived joyously in splendor every day.
