Job 16:16
New Living Translation
16 My eyes are red with weeping;
dark shadows circle my eyes.
Mark 14:34
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34 He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
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Jonah 2
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Jonah’s Prayer
2 [a]Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish. 2 He said,
“I cried out to the Lord in my great trouble,
and he answered me.
I called to you from the land of the dead,[b]
and Lord, you heard me!
3 You threw me into the ocean depths,
and I sank down to the heart of the sea.
The mighty waters engulfed me;
I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
4 Then I said, ‘O Lord, you have driven me from your presence.
Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’
5 “I sank beneath the waves,
and the waters closed over me.
Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
6 I sank down to the very roots of the mountains.
I was imprisoned in the earth,
whose gates lock shut forever.
But you, O Lord my God,
snatched me from the jaws of death!
7 As my life was slipping away,
I remembered the Lord.
And my earnest prayer went out to you
in your holy Temple.
8 Those who worship false gods
turn their backs on all God’s mercies.
9 But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise,
and I will fulfill all my vows.
For my salvation comes from the Lord alone.”
10 Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.
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Lamentations 1:16
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16 “For all these things I weep;
tears flow down my cheeks.
No one is here to comfort me;
any who might encourage me are far away.
My children have no future,
for the enemy has conquered us.”
Isaiah 52:14
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14 But many were amazed when they saw him.[a]
His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
Footnotes
- 52:14 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads you.
Psalm 102:9
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9 I eat ashes for food.
My tears run down into my drink
Psalm 102:3-5
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3 For my days disappear like smoke,
and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
4 My heart is sick, withered like grass,
and I have lost my appetite.
5 Because of my groaning,
I am reduced to skin and bones.
Psalm 69:3
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3 I am exhausted from crying for help;
my throat is parched.
My eyes are swollen with weeping,
waiting for my God to help me.
Psalm 32:3
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3 When I refused to confess my sin,
my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day long.
Psalm 31:9
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9 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress.
Tears blur my eyes.
My body and soul are withering away.
Psalm 6:6-7
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6 I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
7 My vision is blurred by grief;
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
Job 17:7
New Living Translation
7 My eyes are swollen with weeping,
and I am but a shadow of my former self.
Psalm 116:3
New Living Translation
3 Death wrapped its ropes around me;
the terrors of the grave[a] overtook me.
I saw only trouble and sorrow.
Footnotes
- 116:3 Hebrew of Sheol.
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