My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Parallel translations
- KJV My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
- BSB My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
- NKJV My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague, And my relatives stand afar off.
- NASB My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand far away.
- NLT My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease. Even my own family stands at a distance.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
- Luke 23:49All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
- Job 19:13–17“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- Luke 10:31–32By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- Luke 22:54They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.
- Ps 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
- John 16:32Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- Job 6:21–23For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
- Matt 26:56But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- Isa 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
- Isa 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
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