You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
⛓ Read Psalm 88 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You have caused my companions to shun me' parallels the acquaintances standing at a distance, doubling Psalm 38:11. A secondary lament witness to the friends-kept-far motif; offered low.
Low confidenceThe psalmist's 'you have caused my companions to shun me' belongs to the same lament tradition of friends who withdraw in the hour of suffering. Peter warming himself among the officers, distanced and soon to deny, fits this isolation motif, though the connection is thematic.
Low confidence'You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them' adds a second psalm of the friendless sufferer whose acquaintances are removed far off. Its bleak isolation coheres with the women keeping their distance at the cross.
Low confidence'You have caused my companions to shun me' / friends kept at a distance — another standing-far-off lament parallel to the women watching from afar.
Low confidence