Psalms 44:25

World English Bible (2000)

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

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  • Ps 119:25 : 25 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."
  • Lam 4:5 : 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  • Ps 66:11-12 : 11 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. 12 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

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  • Ps 44:23-24
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    23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

    24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake. For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.

  • 25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

  • 7"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Ps 44:17-20
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    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

    18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

    19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

    20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

  • Lam 5:4-6
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    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • 9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

    4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • 11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • 19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 7There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

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    5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

  • 3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • 23and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."

  • 24My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

  • 5then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

  • 20See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • 17Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

  • 16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • 25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."

  • 20Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • 20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

  • 20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

  • 8Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

  • 12Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

  • 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

  • 14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

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    36"Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

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    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • 8They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

  • 16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.