Psalms 73:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:13 : 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
  • Ps 37:1 : 1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
  • Ps 73:3 : 3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

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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.

  • 16 When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

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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.

  • 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • 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.

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    3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

    4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • 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.

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

  • 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • 22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

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

  • Ps 102:4-5
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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.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • Lam 3:19-20
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    19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

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

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

  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • 3 My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

  • 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.

  • 1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

  • 16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

  • 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 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.

  • 2 Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • 2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

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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?

  • 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

  • 17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.