Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me — The same ground of complaint, or expression of the depth of affliction, occurs e…

I am shut up. —Not necessarily an actual imprisonment or incarceration on account of leprosy, but another figurative way …

This is the utterance of a soul imprisoned in solitary confinement, nobody able to come to it to breathe out consolation: "You have put away my acq…

You have removed my acquaintances from me. He was now destitute of all human aid, and that also he attributes to the anger of God…

You have put away my acquaintance far from me
His familiar friends, who were well known to him, and he to them: it i…

The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Good people can be so greatly afflicted, and may have such…