Psalms 42:3
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”
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- Ps 79:10 : 10 Why should the nations say,“Where is their God?” Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!
- Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
- Ps 102:9 : 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
- Ps 115:2 : 2 Why should the nations say,“Where is their God?”
- Ps 42:10 : 10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“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.
- Ps 79:12 : 12 Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
- 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 Perhaps the LORD will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”
- Ps 3:2 : 2 Many say about me,“God will not deliver him.”(Selah)
- Ps 22:8 : 8 They say,“Commit yourself to the LORD! Let the LORD rescue him! Let the LORD deliver him, for he delights in him.”
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- Ps 42:4-118 verses83%
4I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
5Why 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.
6I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
8By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the God of my life.
9I will pray to God, my high ridge:“Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”
10My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
11Why 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 42:1-22 verses81%
1Book 2(Psalms 42-72) For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
2I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”
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24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
- Ps 22:1-22 verses77%
1For 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.
2My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
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9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
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2For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
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2In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.
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20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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5You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
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12Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am a foreign resident with you, a temporary settler, just as all my ancestors were.
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1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
2How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?
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3Certainly 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.
4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
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6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
7My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.
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8You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
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82My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say,“When will you comfort me?”
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9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
10For 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.
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16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
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21ש(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!
22ת(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.
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3When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
4For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
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12ל(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.
13מ(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.
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6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.
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4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
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17For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.
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16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
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28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
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9O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.
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14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
15The 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.
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49ע(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break
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9My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O LORD, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.