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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 neighbour from me;
darkness is my only friend.[a](C)

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  1. 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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16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

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