Psalms 42:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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    6¶ O 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.

    7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

    8[Yet] 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?

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

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    1¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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