Psalms 35:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned to my own bosom.

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  • Job 30:25 : 25 Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
  • Matt 10:13 : 13 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
  • Ps 69:10-11 : 10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth my garment also, and I became a proverb to them.
  • Luke 10:6 : 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon it: if not, it will return to you.
  • Rom 12:14-15 : 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
  • Lev 16:29 : 29 And this shall be a statute forever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger who dwells among you:
  • Lev 16:31 : 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29 : 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.
  • Isa 58:5 : 5 Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you;
  • Matt 9:14-15 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast? 15 And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.

    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Ps 69:10-11
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    10When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

    11I made sackcloth my garment also, and I became a proverb to them.

  • Ps 35:12
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    12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes:

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

    16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Job 30:18-19
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    73%

    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, 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.

    21They 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.

    22Let 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.

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • Lam 3:20
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    20My soul still remembers them and is humbled within me.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4I said, LORD, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.

  • Job 30:27-28
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    27My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.

    28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • Job 30:25
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    25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • Ps 73:21
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    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 109:24-25
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    24My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh is lean of fatness.

    25I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 31:33
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    33If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my heart;

  • Isa 58:5
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    5Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

  • Job 30:16
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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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

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    35"They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."

  • Ps 35:26
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    26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

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    16Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

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    18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • Ps 32:3
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    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

  • Ps 77:2
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    2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted.

  • Ps 109:22
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    22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 42:6
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    6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • Jer 31:19
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    19Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

  • Ps 109:4
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    4In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

  • Ps 69:20
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    20Reproach 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.

  • Isa 37:1
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    1And it happened, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Lam 1:11
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    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I have become vile.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27
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    27And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.