Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
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Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
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Exodus 32:1
When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Romans 11:1
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2
God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
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1 Samuel 18:29
Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
1 Samuel 24:19
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
Esther 7:6
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Psalms 7:2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Psalms 7:5
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 8:2
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 9:6
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 17:9
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
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Nehemiah 2:2
The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 45:3
‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
John 16:6
But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Philippians 2:27
For indeed he was sick nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
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Job 9:11
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
Job 23:8
“If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.
Job 23:9
He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
Isaiah 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”
1 Timothy 6:16
He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
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Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 55:2
Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan
Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
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Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15
All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 89:38
But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Psalms 89:50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Psalms 89:51
With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Daniel 12:6
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
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Psalms 25:2
My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
Psalms 35:19
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 35:20
For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psalms 35:21
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
Psalms 35:23
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Psalms 35:24
Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
Psalms 35:25
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psalms 142:6
Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Isaiah 36:15
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’
Isaiah 37:10
“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
Isaiah 37:20
Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
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Job 7:19
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
Job 9:18
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 30:27
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Job 30:28
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
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2 Samuel 23:5
Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Psalms 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalms 63:2
So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
Psalms 63:3
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Psalms 77:10
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalms 77:11
I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.
Psalms 77:12
I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psalms 143:5
I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
Psalms 143:6
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
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Psalms 22:11
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
Psalms 38:21
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
Psalms 40:13
Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Psalms 69:1
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Psalms 69:18
Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Psalms 116:3
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Matthew 26:38
Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”
John 16:32
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
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Song of Solomon 1:3
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2:4
He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.
Song of Solomon 5:8
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
Isaiah 26:8
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
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Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Isaiah 11:2
Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
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Psalms 41:11
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
Isaiah 36:14
The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah 36:16
Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isaiah 36:17
until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36:18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36:19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isaiah 36:20
Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”
Isaiah 37:35
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
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1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
Job 19:7
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 34:29
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
Psalms 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 27:9
Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
Psalms 44:24
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 85:5
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
Psalms 88:14
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
Psalms 104:29
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
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Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
Lamentations 3:4
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:17
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 4:9
“It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
Jeremiah 23:24
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:25
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
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Lamentations 3:5
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:6
He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:9
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
Lamentations 3:11
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Lamentations 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
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Amos 1:11
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
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Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
Psalms 17:13
Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
Psalms 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psalms 37:24
Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
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Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Psalms 22:8
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 94:4
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
Psalms 143:3
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Psalms 143:4
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
Habakkuk 1:2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Luke 22:53
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
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Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!
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1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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