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.
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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.
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1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Psalms 42:5
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Psalms 42:6
My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 42:11
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
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 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
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.”
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2 Samuel 2:22
Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
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2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Psalms 3:2
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.
Psalms 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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2 Samuel 18:11
Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a sash.”
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2 Samuel 24:3
Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
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Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Psalms 68:10
Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
Psalms 72:4
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psalms 89:10
You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
Psalms 141:8
For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
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Job 10:22
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 8:10
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets;
Isaiah 8:22
then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Matthew 8:12
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
John 12:46
I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
Jude 1:5
Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
Jude 1:6
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
Psalms 27:7
Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
Psalms 55:1
Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
Psalms 55:2
Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan
Psalms 64:1
Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms 71:11
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
Psalms 71:12
God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
Psalms 141:1
Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
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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 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 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
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.
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.
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Psalms 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
Psalms 16:11
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
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 18:16
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalms 86:13
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest 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 116:3
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.
Jonah 2:5
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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Psalms 44:24
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
Psalms 44:26
Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
Psalms 79:8
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Psalms 116:6
Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
Psalms 136:23
who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness endures forever;
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Psalms 17:10
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 17:11
They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 35:4
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
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Psalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
Jeremiah 17:5
Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
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Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 6:3
My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?
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 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Lamentations 3:13
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Matthew 26:37
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
Matthew 26:38
Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”
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Psalms 25:16
Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms 71:20
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 143:11
Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
Isaiah 24:22
They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Acts 2:24
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
Acts 2:27
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Acts 2:28
You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
Acts 2:29
“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 2:30
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Acts 2:31
he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
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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 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?
Psalms 77:5
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Psalms 77:6
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Psalms 77:7
“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
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 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
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.’
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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Psalms 138:7
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
Luke 23:5
But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
Luke 23:21
but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
Luke 23:22
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
Luke 23:23
But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
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Jeremiah 15:20
I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 15:21
“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”
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Psalms 74:7
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psalms 89:39
You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Psalms 89:44
You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
Isaiah 25:12
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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Mark 14:72
The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the words that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
Luke 22:62
He went out, and wept bitterly.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Psalms 38:18
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Psalms 130:3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Ezekiel 7:16
But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
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 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 26:75
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
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