Psalms 69:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 “I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
  • Isa 63:5 : 5 I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.
  • Ps 142:4 : 4 Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
  • Mark 14:50 : 50 Then all the disciples left him and fled.
  • John 12:27 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
  • John 16:32 : 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
  • 2 Tim 4:16-17 : 16 At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it. 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed. 38 Then he said to them,“My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
  • Mark 14:37 : 37 Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?
  • Job 19:21-22 : 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. 22 Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
  • Ps 123:4 : 4 We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

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    9Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

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  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

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    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

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    18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

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

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    6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

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