Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
- Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 21:25 : 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
- Ps 39:9-9 : 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
- John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
- 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
- Ezra 9:10 : 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
- Josh 7:8 : 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
- 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
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1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
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9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
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12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desote and faint all the day.
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8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are gd that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
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20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desote.
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10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
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4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.