Verse 24

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?” 4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.