Verse 24

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuseth to touch [them] ; They are as loathsome food to me.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.