Psalms 42:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame. They say to me,“Where is the LORD your God?” I will gloat over them. Then they will be trampled down like mud in the streets.
  • Luke 2:35 : 35 Indeed, as a result of him the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed– and a sword will pierce your own soul as well!”
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.

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  • Ps 42:8-9
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    8 By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the God of my life.

    9 I will pray to God, my high ridge:“Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

  • Ps 42:2-3
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    2 I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

    3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

  • 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.

  • 2 For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

  • 2 How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?

  • 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21 ש(Sin/Shin) They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me!

    22 ת(Tav) Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.

  • Ps 71:10-11
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    10 For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.

    11 They say,“God has abandoned him. Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!”

  • 10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

    10 People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

  • 2 Those who anticipate my defeat attack me all day long. Indeed, many are fighting against me, O Exalted One.

  • 5 All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.

  • 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.

  • 5 My enemies ask this cruel question about me,‘When will he finally die and be forgotten?’

  • Ps 31:10-11
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    10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

    11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

  • 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.

  • 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • 13 מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Lam 3:3-4
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    3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

    4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

    4 My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • 3 because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10 I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.

    11 But the LORD is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.

  • 2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

  • 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

  • 14 But I trust in you, O LORD! I declare,“You are my God!”

  • 73%

    2 Many say about me,“God will not deliver him.”(Selah)

  • 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • 15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • 4 Then my enemy will say,“I have defeated him!” Then my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

  • 1 Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?

  • 10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

  • 11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 14 I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

  • 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

  • 3 I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

  • 19 Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.

  • 8 For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out,“Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the LORD has made me an object of continual insults and derision.

  • 22 Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

  • 17 I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

  • 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

  • 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.