Psalm 102:7
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7 I lie awake;
I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.(A)
Psalm 77:4
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4 You keep my eyelids from closing;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 38:11
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11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
and my neighbors stand far off.(A)
Mark 14:33-37
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33 He took with him Peter and James and John and began to be distressed and agitated. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”(A) 35 And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.(B) 36 He said, “Abba,[a] Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”(C) 37 He came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep awake one hour?
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- 14.36 Aramaic for Father
Lamentations 3:28-30
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28 to sit alone in silence
when the Lord[a] has imposed it,(A)
29 to put one’s mouth to the dust
(there may yet be hope),
30 to give one’s cheek to the smiter
and be filled with insults.(B)
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- 3.28 Heb he
Psalm 130:6
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6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than those who watch for the morning,
more than those who watch for the morning.(A)
Psalm 22:2
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2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
and by night but find no rest.(A)
Job 7:13-16
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13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
my couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,(A)
15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(B)
Deuteronomy 28:66-67
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66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, with no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.(A)
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