Verse 24

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept a feast.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all roar like bears, and mourn deeply like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 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 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.