Psalms 38:17
For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.
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- Ps 35:15 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
- Ps 38:6 : 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.
- Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted. 3 I said,“I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.”(Selah)
- Isa 53:3-5 : 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 4 But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. 5 He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.
- Mic 4:6-7 : 6 Restoration Will Follow Crisis“In that day,” says the LORD,“I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured. 7 I will transform the lame into the nucleus of a new nation, and those far off into a mighty nation. The LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion, from that day forward and forevermore.”
- Ps 6:6 : 6 I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
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