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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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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Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
Numbers 14:15
Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Numbers 14:16
‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Deuteronomy 32:27
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”
2 Kings 19:10
“Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 19:11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Kings 19:13
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’ ”
2 Kings 19:14
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
2 Kings 19:15
Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
2 Kings 19:17
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
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Exodus 34:24
For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
Deuteronomy 31:11
when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
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Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
1 Samuel 4:18
When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 4:22
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
2 Kings 19:4
It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psalms 69:18
Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
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1 Samuel 1:8
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
Job 16:16
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
Job 17:7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Psalms 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Psalms 56:8
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Psalms 143:6
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Jeremiah 14:17
“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Mark 9:24
Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
Psalms 66:13
I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
Psalms 66:14
which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
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1 Samuel 1:15
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
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1 Samuel 20:41
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most.
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2 Samuel 15:25
The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation;
2 Samuel 15:26
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
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Deuteronomy 32:37
He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
2 Kings 19:18
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.
2 Kings 19:19
Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
Psalms 115:1
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
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 37:11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Isaiah 51:13
Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
Daniel 3:15
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
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Job 5:21
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Luke 2:35
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
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Job 39:3
They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.
Joel 1:20
Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 38:10
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
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 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 77:6
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
Psalms 102:10
because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
Psalms 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:3
and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
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Psalms 41:5
My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Psalms 41:9
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
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Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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Psalms 55:4
My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
Psalms 55:6
I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms 55:7
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.
Psalms 55:8
“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
Psalms 69:4
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
Psalms 69:19
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
Psalms 80:6
You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isaiah 66:5
Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
Matthew 27:40
and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
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2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
Psalms 5:10
Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
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 69:7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psalms 69:17
Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
Psalms 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 71:10
For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Matthew 27:42
“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
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Psalms 94:7
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Malachi 2:13
“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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Psalms 95:2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Psalms 100:2
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
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Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Psalms 137:4
How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
Psalms 137:6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.
Lamentations 2:6
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
Hosea 9:5
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
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Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
Ezekiel 4:17
that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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Ezekiel 36:38
As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
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Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 63:4
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Isaiah 25:6
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
Isaiah 65:13
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed.
Hosea 2:3
lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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Psalms 9:18
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 55:16
As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
Psalms 55:17
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
Psalms 86:6
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 88:1
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
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Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
Jeremiah 15:17
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
Lamentations 3:50
until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
John 12:27
“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
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Hebrews 3:15
while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
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Song of Solomon 8:2
I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Amos 8:11
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
Revelation 22:3
There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.
Revelation 22:4
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
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