Lamentations 3:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I continually think about this, and I am depressed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:5-6 : 5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. 6 I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
  • Ps 43:5 : 5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
  • Ps 44:25 : 25 For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.
  • Ps 146:8 : 8 The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.

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