Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
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Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
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Genesis 41:8
In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Judges 13:25
Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Daniel 2:3
The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
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Genesis 45:3
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Genesis 45:15
He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Job 4:2
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:5
But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
Job 23:15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Zechariah 12:10
I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn.
Matthew 14:26
When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.
Mark 6:50
for they all saw him and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
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Deuteronomy 28:66
Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Mark 14:33
He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
Mark 14:34
He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”
Mark 14:35
He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
Mark 14:36
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
Mark 14:37
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
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Nehemiah 7:3
I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them; and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
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Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
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Job 6:2
“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 16:6
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
Psalms 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
Psalms 88:4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Psalms 88:5
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
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 88:17
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
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 143:7
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.
Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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Job 9:27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
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Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
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Job 26:9
He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
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Job 31:23
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
Jeremiah 17:17
Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
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Job 37:19
Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
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Job 37:20
Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
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Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 42:8
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 63:7
For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Psalms 119:55
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
Psalms 119:147
I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
Psalms 149:5
Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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Job 30:17
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 38:1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Psalms 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
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Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
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Psalms 40:5
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Psalms 139:17
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
Psalms 139:18
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
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Psalms 51:15
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
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Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
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Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
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Psalms 61:3
For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Psalms 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
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Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
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Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
Psalms 38:10
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Psalms 102:10
because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 17:12
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
Psalms 31:22
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Psalms 116:10
I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”
Isaiah 38:10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38:13
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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.”
Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
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.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
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Psalms 27:13
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Proverbs 24:10
If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
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.” ’
Lamentations 1:13
“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
Lamentations 1:22
“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews 12:5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:17
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
Jeremiah 9:18
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
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.”
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
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Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
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Lamentations 3:20
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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Psalms 116:11
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
Jonah 2:4
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
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Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Habakkuk 3:19
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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