Jeremiah 45:3
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3 You said, (A)‘Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. (B)I am weary with my groaning, (C)and I find no rest.’
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Galatians 6:9
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9 And (A)let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, (B)if we do not give up.
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2 Corinthians 4:16
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16 So we do not lose heart. (A)Though our outer self[a] is wasting away, (B)our inner self (C)is being renewed day by day.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:16 Greek man
2 Corinthians 4:1
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The Light of the Gospel
4 Therefore, having (A)this ministry (B)by the mercy of God,[a] we do not lose heart.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:1 Greek having this ministry as we have received mercy
Hebrews 12:3-5
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Do Not Grow Weary
3 (A)Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or (B)fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
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2 Thessalonians 3:13
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13 As for you, brothers, (A)do not grow weary in doing good.
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Lamentations 3:32
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32 but, though he (A)cause grief, (B)he will have compassion
(C)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Lamentations 3:1-19
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Great Is Your Faithfulness
3 (A)I am the man who has seen affliction
under the (B)rod of his wrath;
2 he has driven and brought me
(C)into darkness without any light;
3 surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
(D)he has broken my bones;
5 (E)he has besieged and enveloped me
with (F)bitterness and tribulation;
6 (G)he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 (H)He has walled me about so that (I)I cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8 though (J)I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9 (K)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 (L)He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11 (M)he turned aside my steps and (N)tore me to pieces;
(O)he has made me desolate;
12 (P)he bent his bow (Q)and set me
as a target for his arrow.
13 He drove into my kidneys
(R)the arrows of his quiver;
14 (S)I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
(T)the object of their taunts all day long.
15 (U)He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with (V)wormwood.
16 (W)He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and (X)made me cower in ashes;
17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness[a] is;
18 (Y)so I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
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- Lamentations 3:17 Hebrew good
Lamentations 1:22
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22 (A)“Let all their evildoing come before you,
and deal with them
as (B)you have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions;
for (C)my groans are many,
and (D)my heart is faint.”
Lamentations 1:13
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13 “From on high he (A)sent fire;
into my bones[a] he made it descend;
(B)he spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
(C)he has left me stunned,
faint all the day long.
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- Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint; Hebrew bones and
Jeremiah 20:7-18
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7 O Lord, (A)you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
(B)you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
(C)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, (D)“Violence and destruction!”
For (E)the word of the Lord has become for me
(F)a reproach and (G)derision all day long.
9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
(H)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and (I)I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10 (J)For I hear many whispering.
(K)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (L)Let us denounce him!”
say all my (M)close friends,
(N)watching for (O)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then (P)we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”
11 But (Q)the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
(R)they will not overcome me.
(S)They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their (T)eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
(U)who sees the heart and the mind,[a]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.
13 (V)Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hand of evildoers.
14 (W)Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
(X)making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like (Y)the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(Z)let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 (AA)because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 (AB)Why did I come out from the womb
(AC)to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
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- Jeremiah 20:12 Hebrew kidneys
Jeremiah 15:10-21
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Jeremiah's Complaint
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11 The Lord said, “Have I not[a] set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? 12 Can one break iron, iron (C)from the north, and bronze?
13 (D)“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as (E)spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. 14 I will make you serve your enemies (F)in a land that you do not know, (G)for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”
15 (H)O Lord, you know;
(I)remember me and visit me,
(J)(K)and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance take me not away;
(L)know that (M)for your sake I bear reproach.
16 Your words were found, (N)and I ate them,
and (O)your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
(P)for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of hosts.
17 (Q)I did not sit in the company of revelers,
nor did I rejoice;
(R)I sat alone, because your hand was upon me,
for you had filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain unceasing,
(S)my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me (T)like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
(U)“If you return, I will restore you,
and you shall (V)stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
but you shall not turn to them.
20 (W)And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
(X)but they shall not prevail over you,
(Y)for I am with you
to save you and deliver you,
declares the Lord.
21 (Z)I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and redeem you from the grasp of (AA)the ruthless.”
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- Jeremiah 15:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 9:1
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9 [a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!
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- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 8:18
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Jeremiah Grieves for His People
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- Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Proverbs 24:10
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10 If you (A)faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Psalm 120:5
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Psalm 77:3-4
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3 When I remember God, I (A)moan;
when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
4 You hold my eyelids open;
I am so (B)troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 69:3
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3 (A)I am weary with my crying out;
(B)my throat is parched.
(C)My eyes grow dim
with (D)waiting for my God.
Psalm 42:7
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7 Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
(A)all your breakers and your (B)waves
have gone over me.
Psalm 27:13
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- Psalm 27:13 Other Hebrew manuscripts Oh! Had I not believed that I would look
Psalm 6:6
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6 I am (A)weary with my (B)moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Job 23:2
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- Job 23:2 Or defiant
Job 16:11-13
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11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (A)target;
13 his (B)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (C)and does not spare;
he (D)pours out my gall on the ground.
Joshua 7:7-9
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7 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, (A)why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! 8 O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and (B)cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”
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Numbers 11:11-15
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11 (A)Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, (B)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (C)nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land (D)that you swore to give their fathers? 13 (E)Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 (F)I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
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