Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
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- Job 3:24 : 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
- Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
- Isa 59:11 : 11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Job 30:28 : 28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
- Ps 22:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
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2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
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.
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9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
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18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
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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.
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22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
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17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
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14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
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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.
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4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
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2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
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4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
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19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
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21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
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4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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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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13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
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.
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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.
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15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
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24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
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16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
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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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27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
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1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.
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3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
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2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;