Psalms 6:6

World English Bible (2000)

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

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  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
  • Ps 38:9 : 9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • Job 7:3 : 3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
  • Job 23:2 : 2 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
  • Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. 4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
  • Ps 143:4-7 : 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. 5 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands. 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah. 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Jer 14:17 : 17 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
  • Lam 1:2 : 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
  • Lam 1:16 : 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
  • Lam 2:18-19 : 18 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
  • Lam 3:48-50 : 48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission, 50 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
  • Luke 7:38 : 38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

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