Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
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- 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
- Job 7:11 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 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 21:25 : 25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.
- Ps 39:9-9 : 9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, Because you did it. 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
- John 12:27 : 27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
- 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.
- Ezra 9:10 : 10 Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,
- Josh 7:8 : 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
- 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore.
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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.
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11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
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16 Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.
17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.
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6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
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18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
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3 For 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.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
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8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
15 Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
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19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
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21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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14 For all day long have I been plagued, And punished every morning.
15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
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18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
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1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
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20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?
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27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
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21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
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7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
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10 Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
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3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
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15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
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3 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
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4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
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20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.