Psalms 42:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 79:10 : 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 115:2 : 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
  • Ps 22:8 : 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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    4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

    6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

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    8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

    10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

    11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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    1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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    1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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