Psalms 35:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
  • Matt 10:13 : 13 And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.
  • Ps 69:10-11 : 10 My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame. 11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
  • Luke 10:6 : 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.
  • Rom 12:14-15 : 14 Give blessing and not curses to those who are cruel to you. 15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
  • Lev 16:29 : 29 And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:
  • Lev 16:31 : 31 It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29 : 27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly. 28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
  • Isa 58:5 : 5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;
  • Matt 9:14-15 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not? 15 And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

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  • Ps 35:14-15
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    14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Ps 69:10-11
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    79%

    10 My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

    11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

  • Ps 35:12
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    12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3 And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    74%

    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • Job 30:18-19
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    73%

    18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    72%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

    7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

  • Lam 3:20
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    20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

  • Job 30:27-28
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    27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

    28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

  • Job 30:25
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    25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

  • Ps 73:21
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    21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 109:24-25
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    24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

    25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

  • Job 31:33
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    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • Isa 58:5
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    5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

  • Job 30:16
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    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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    9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

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    35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

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    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

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    16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

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    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

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    3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

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    19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

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    2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

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    22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

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    24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Job 42:6
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    6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

  • Jer 31:19
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    19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

  • Ps 109:4
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    4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • Ps 69:20
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    20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Isa 37:1
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    1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • Lam 1:11
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    11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27
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    27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.