Verse 2

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 16:16 : 16 She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 “How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 “How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
  • Job 27:2 : 2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am frail! Heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking! 3 I am absolutely terrified, and you, LORD– how long will this continue?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. 8 But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
  • 2 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men, 8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”