Psalms 42:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

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  • Ps 79:10 : 10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 115:2 : 2 Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your 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 your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 Then she who is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Many there are who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
  • Ps 22:8 : 8 He trusted in the LORD that He would deliver him; let Him deliver him, since He delighted in him.

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    4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within 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 a feast.

    5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.

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

    7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.

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

    9 I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

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

  • Ps 42:1-2
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    81%

    1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

    2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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

  • Ps 69:3
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    3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 22:1-2
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    77%

    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?

    2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • Ps 102:9
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    9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,

  • Ps 43:2
    76%

    2 For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Ps 77:2
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    2 In 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.

  • Job 16:20
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    20 My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Ps 80:5
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    5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

  • Ps 39:12
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    12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • Ps 13:1-2
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    1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Ps 6:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

    7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

  • Ps 56:8
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    8 You record my wanderings; put my tears into your bottle; are they not in your book?

  • Ps 119:82
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    82 My eyes fail with longing for Your word, saying, 'When will You comfort me?'

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    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 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Lam 1:16
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    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.

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    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.

  • Ps 32:3-4
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    3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

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    1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you;

  • Lam 3:11
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    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 69:20
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    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.

  • Lam 1:12-13
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    12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

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    4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

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

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

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

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    9 Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

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    49 My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,

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