How long must I take (A)counsel in my soul
    and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

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(A)Rejoice not over me, O (B)my enemy;
    (C)when I fall, I shall rise;
(D)when I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be a light to me.
(E)I will bear the indignation of the Lord
    because I have sinned against him,
until (F)he pleads my cause
    and executes judgment for me.
(G)He will bring me out to the light;
    I shall look upon his vindication.
10 Then (H)my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who (I)said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
(J)My eyes will look upon her;
    now she will be trampled down
    (K)like the mire of the streets.

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Jeremiah Grieves for His People

18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[a]
    (A)my heart is sick within me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

18 Why is my pain unceasing,
    (A)my wound incurable,
    refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me (B)like a deceitful brook,
    like waters that fail?

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For the enemy has pursued my soul;
    (A)he has crushed my life to the ground;
    (B)he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
Therefore my spirit (C)faints within me;
    my heart within me is appalled.

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(A)Her foes have become the head;
    her (B)enemies prosper,
because (C)the Lord has afflicted her
    (D)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(E)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

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17 Moreover, all his days he (A)eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

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13 (A)A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
    but by (B)sorrow of heart the spirit is (C)crushed.

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(A)Look to the (B)right and see:
    (C)there is none who takes notice of me;
(D)no refuge remains to me;
    no one cares for my soul.

I cry to you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my (E)refuge,
    my (F)portion in (G)the land of the living.”
(H)Attend to my cry,
    for (I)I am brought very low!
Deliver me from my persecutors,
    (J)for they are too strong for me!
(K)Bring me out of prison,
    that I may give thanks to your name!
The righteous will surround me,
    for you will (L)deal bountifully with me.

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(A)Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of (B)contempt.
Our soul has had more than enough
    of (C)the scorn of (D)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (E)the proud.

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“Behold, (A)I go forward, but he is not there,
    and backward, but I do not perceive him;
on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;
    he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
10 But he (B)knows (C)the way that I (D)take;
    when he has (E)tried me, I shall come out as gold.

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15 (A)If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am (B)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and (C)look on my affliction.

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27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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But because I have said these things to you, (A)sorrow has filled your heart.

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38 Then he said to them, (A)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and (B)watch[a] with me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:38 Or keep awake; also verses 40, 41

Her uncleanness was (A)in her skirts;
    (B)she took no thought of her future;[a]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    (C)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has (D)triumphed!”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:9 Or end

(A)The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.

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18 When I thought, (A)“My foot slips,”
    your steadfast love, O Lord, (B)held me up.
19 When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.

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18 (A)Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and (B)a foolish people reviles your name.

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10 How long, O God, (A)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

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14 You have made us (A)a byword among the nations,
    (B)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and (C)shame has covered my face
16 at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
    at the sight of (D)the enemy and the avenger.

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  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

I say to God, (A)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
(B)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
(C)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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These things I remember,
    as I (A)pour out my soul:
(B)how I would go (C)with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    (D)a multitude keeping festival.

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18 Let the lying lips be mute,
    which (A)speak (B)insolently against the righteous
    in pride and contempt.

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