Psalms 42:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 79:10 : 10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Ps 115:2 : 2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
  • Ps 22:8 : 8 He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

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    4 Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

    5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

    6 My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

    8 But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

    9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

    10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

    11 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • Ps 42:1-2
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

    2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

  • Job 3:24
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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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    3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

  • Ps 22:1-2
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    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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    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

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  • Ps 143:3-4
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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.

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    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.

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