Look on my right hand and see,
For there is no one who acknowledges me;
Refuge has failed me;
No one cares for my soul.

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17 (A)For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord,
‘Because they called you an outcast saying:
“This is Zion;
No one seeks her.” ’

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18 (A)Loved one and friend You have put far from me,
And my acquaintances into darkness.

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11 (A)I am a [a]reproach among all my enemies,
But (B)especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
(C)Those who see me outside flee from me.

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  1. Psalm 31:11 despised thing

13 “He(A) has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14 My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
Count me as a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.
16 I call my servant, but he gives no answer;
I beg him with my mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am [a]repulsive to the children of my own body.
18 Even (B)young children despise me;
I arise, and they speak against me.
19 (C)All my close friends abhor me,
And those whom I love have turned against me.

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  1. Job 19:17 Lit. strange

56 But all this was done that the (A)Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

Then (B)all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

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(A)You have [a]put away my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them;
(B)I am shut up, and I cannot get out;

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  1. Psalm 88:8 taken away my friends

20 Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of [a]heaviness;
(A)I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for (B)comforters, but I found none.

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  1. Psalm 69:20 Lit. sickness

16 At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. (A)May it not be charged against them.

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David Allied with the Philistines

27 And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will [a]despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 27:1 despair of searching for

19 Then the Ziphites (A)came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and (B)our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.”

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11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.”

And the Lord said, “He will come down.”

12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah [a]deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?”

And the Lord said, “They will deliver you.

13 So David and his men, (A)about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition.

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  1. 1 Samuel 23:12 Lit. shut up

35 And the shepherds will have no [a]way to flee,
Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

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  1. Jeremiah 25:35 Or refuge

20 But (A)the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they shall not escape,
And (B)their hope—[a]loss of life!”

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  1. Job 11:20 Lit. the breathing out of life

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