Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 79:10 : 10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, That vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
- Ps 80:5 : 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
- Ps 115:2 : 2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
- Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, And don't give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
- Mic 7:10 : 10 Then my enemy will see it, And shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
- Ps 79:12 : 12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.
- Ps 3:2 : 2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.
- Ps 22:8 : 8 "He trusts in Yahweh; Let him deliver him; Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."
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4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Ps 42:1-22 verses81%
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2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
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24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
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3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- Ps 22:1-22 verses77%
1 > My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
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9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
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5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
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4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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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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6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
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17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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