Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
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- Job 30:25 : 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
- Matt 10:13 : 13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.
- Ps 69:10-11 : 10 When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach. 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
- Luke 10:6 : 6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
- Rom 12:14-15 : 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
- Lev 16:29 : 29 "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
- Lev 16:31 : 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
- 1 Kgs 21:27-29 : 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. 28 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
- Isa 58:3 : 3 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.
- Isa 58:5 : 5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
- Matt 5:44 : 44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
- Matt 9:14-15 : 14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?" 15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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- Ps 35:14-152 verses81%
14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
- Ps 69:10-112 verses79%
10 When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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12 They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
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3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Job 16:15-162 verses74%
15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
- Job 30:18-192 verses73%
18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
- Lam 1:20-223 verses72%
20 See, 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.
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.
- Ps 38:6-83 verses72%
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
- Job 30:27-282 verses71%
27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
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21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
- Ps 31:9-102 verses70%
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.
- Ps 109:24-252 verses70%
24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
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33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,
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5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
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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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18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
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9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
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35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
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26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
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16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.
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18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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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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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.
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22 For I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
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24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
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6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
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19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
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4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer.
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12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, Then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, Then I would have hid myself from him.
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20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.
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1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
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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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11 All 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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5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
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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.