Jeremiah 45:3
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3 You said, “Woe is me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”(A)
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Galatians 6:9
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9 So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:16
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Living by Faith
16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:1
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Treasure in Clay Jars
4 Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.(A)
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Hebrews 12:3-5
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3 Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,[a] so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.(A) 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—
“My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when you are punished by him,(B)
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- 12.3 Other ancient authorities read such hostility from sinners against themselves
2 Thessalonians 3:13
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13 Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.
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Lamentations 3:32
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32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;(A)
Lamentations 3:1-19
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God’s Steadfast Love Endures
3 I am one who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s[a] wrath;(A)
2 he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
3 against me alone he turns his hand,
again and again, all day long.(B)
4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
he has broken my bones;(C)
5 he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
6 he has made me sit in darkness
like the dead of long ago.(D)
7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;(E)
8 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;(F)
9 he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;(G)
11 he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;
he has made me desolate;
12 he bent his bow and set me
as a mark for his arrow.(H)
13 He shot into my vitals
the arrows of his quiver;
14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunt songs all day long.(I)
15 He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel;
he has made me cower in ashes;
17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
18 so I say, “Gone is my glory
and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.”
19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
is wormwood and gall!(J)
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- 3.1 Heb his
Lamentations 1:22
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22 Let all their evildoing come before you,
and deal with them
as you have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions;
for my groans are many,
and my heart is faint.(A)
Lamentations 1:13
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13 From on high he sent fire;
it went deep into my bones;
he spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
he has left me stunned,
faint all day long.(A)
Jeremiah 20:7-18
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Jeremiah Denounces His Persecutors
7 O Lord, you have enticed me,
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
everyone mocks me.(A)
8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out;
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.(B)
9 If I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.(C)
10 For I hear many whispering:
“Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my close friends
are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
and we can prevail against him
and take our revenge on him.”(D)
11 But the Lord is with me like a terrifying warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.(E)
12 O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous;
you see the heart and the mind;
let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.(F)
13 Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hands of evildoers.(G)
14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!(H)
15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad.(I)
16 Let that man be like the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,(J)
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(K)
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(L)
Jeremiah 15:10-21
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A) 11 The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life[a] for good; surely I have brought enemies upon you[b] in a time of trouble and in a time of distress.(B) 12 Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.(C) 14 I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn against you.(D)
15 O Lord, you know;
remember me and visit me,
and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance do not take me away;
know that on your account I suffer insult.(E)
16 Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of hosts.(F)
17 I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,
nor did I rejoice;
under the weight of your hand I sat alone,
for you had filled me with indignation.(G)
18 Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.(H)
19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
If you turn back, I will take you back,
and you shall stand before me.
If you utter what is precious and not what is worthless,
you shall serve as my mouth.
It is they who will turn to you,
not you who will turn to them.(I)
20 And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
but they shall not prevail over you,
for I am with you
to save you and deliver you,
says the Lord.(J)
21 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked
and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.(K)
Jeremiah 9:1
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9 [a]O that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
so that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people!(A)
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- 9.1 8.23 in Heb
Jeremiah 8:18
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The Prophet Mourns for the People
18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick.
Proverbs 24:10
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10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength being small;(A)
Psalm 120:5
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5 Woe is me, that I am an alien in Meshech,
that I must live among the tents of Kedar.(A)
Psalm 77:3-4
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3 I think of God, and I moan;
I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah(A)
4 You keep my eyelids from closing;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 69:3
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3 I am weary with my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.(A)
Psalm 42:7
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7 Deep calls to deep
at the thunder of your torrents;
all your waves and your billows
have gone over me.(A)
Psalm 27:13
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13 I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.(A)
Psalm 6:6
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6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Job 23:2
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Job 16:11-13
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11 God gives me up to the evil
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.(A)
12 I was at ease, and he broke me in two;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;(B)
13 his archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys and shows no mercy;
he pours out my gall on the ground.(C)
Joshua 7:7-9
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7 Joshua said, “Ah, Lord God! Why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all, to hand us over to the Amorites so as to destroy us? Would that we had been content to settle beyond the Jordan!(A) 8 O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned their backs to their enemies! 9 The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your great name?”(B)
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Numbers 11:11-15
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11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? 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 birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?(A) 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’(B) 14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.(C) 15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”(D)
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