Psalms 25:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

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  • Ps 86:16 : 16 Turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your maidservant.
  • Ps 143:4 : 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  • Dan 9:17 : 17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
  • Mic 7:19 : 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Mark 15:33-35 : 33 And when the sixth hour came, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, translated, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 35 And some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, Look, he calls Elijah.
  • Ps 88:15-18 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. 17 They came around me daily like water; they have encircled me together. 18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.
  • Ps 69:14-20 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me. 16 Hear me, O LORD, for your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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  • Ps 25:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.

    18 Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

  • 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

  • 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.

  • Ps 69:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16 Hear me, O LORD, for your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

    17 And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.

  • Ps 109:21-22
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    78%

    21 But deal with me for your name’s sake, O GOD the Lord, because your mercy is good, deliver me.

    22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • 16 Turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your maidservant.

  • 15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

  • Lam 1:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 132 Look upon me and be merciful to me, as Your custom is toward those who love Your name.

  • 77%

    2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

  • 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

  • 16 Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

  • Ps 27:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice; Have mercy also upon me and answer me.

    8 When You said, 'Seek My face,' my heart said to You, 'Your face, LORD, I will seek.'

  • 26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to your mercy,

  • 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • 76%

    4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for Your mercy’s sake.

  • Ps 40:12-13
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    76%

    12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold of me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

    13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

  • 6 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 8 But my eyes are upon you, O GOD the Lord; in you is my trust; do not leave my soul destitute.

  • 1 LORD, I cry to you; make haste to me; listen to my voice when I cry to you.

  • 1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul trusts in you; yes, in the shadow of your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by.

  • 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I cry to You daily.

  • 2 Attend to me, and hear me; I mourn in my complaint and make a noise,

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

  • 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul.

  • 1 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.

  • 8 I cried out to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.

  • 21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

  • 58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful to me according to Your word.

  • 9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

  • 6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God; incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

  • 11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

  • 76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be my comfort, according to Your word to Your servant.

  • 1 Out of the depths I have cried to you, O LORD.

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    1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.