Job 30:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 I go about in sunless gloom;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(A)
Psalm 43:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?(A)
Psalm 42:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?”(A)
Psalm 38:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all day long I go around mourning.(A)
Lamentations 3:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Footnotes
- 3.1 Heb his
Isaiah 53:3-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
he was despised, and we held him of no account.(A)
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases,
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.(B)
Job 19:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;
I call aloud, but there is no justice.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.