Psalm 32:3
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3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 38:8
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8 I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.
Psalm 38:3
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3 There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.
Lamentations 3:8
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8 Even (A)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
Psalm 22:1
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The Suffering, Praise, and Posterity of the Messiah
To the Chief Musician. Set to [a]“The Deer of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David.
22 My (A)God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?
Footnotes
- Psalm 22:1 Heb. Aijeleth Hashahar
Hosea 7:14
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14 (A)They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from Me
Proverbs 28:13
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13 (A)He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Job 30:30
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Psalm 51:8
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8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken (A)may rejoice.
Luke 15:15-16
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15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the [a]pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
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- Luke 15:16 carob pods
Lamentations 3:4
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Lamentations 1:3
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3 (A)Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
(B)She dwells among the [a]nations,
She finds no (C)rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:3 Gentiles
Jeremiah 31:18-19
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18 “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
‘You have (A)chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained bull;
(B)Restore me, and I will return,
For You are the Lord my God.
19 Surely, (C)after my turning, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh;
I was (D)ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Isaiah 59:11
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11 We all growl like bears,
And (A)moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
Isaiah 51:20
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20 (A)Your sons have fainted,
They lie at the head of all the streets,
Like an antelope in a net;
They are full of the fury of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.
Psalm 31:9-10
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9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
(A)My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my [a]body!
10 For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.
Footnotes
- Psalm 31:9 Lit. belly
Psalm 6:2
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2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak;
O Lord, (A)heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Job 30:17
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17 My bones are pierced in me at night,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
Job 3:24
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24 For my sighing comes before [a]I eat,
And my groanings pour out like water.
Footnotes
- Job 3:24 Lit. my bread
2 Samuel 11:27-12:12
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27 And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she (A)became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done (B)displeased[a] the Lord.
Nathan’s Parable and David’s Confession
12 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And (C)he came to him, and (D)said to him: “There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. 3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. 4 And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
5 So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this [b]shall surely die! 6 And he shall restore (E)fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I (F)anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! 9 (G)Why have you (H)despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? (I)You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. 10 Now therefore, (J)the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will (K)take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, (L)but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 11:27 Lit. was evil in the eyes of
- 2 Samuel 12:5 deserves to die, lit. is a son of death
Genesis 3:8-19
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8 And they heard (A)the [a]sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the [b]cool of the day, and Adam and his wife (B)hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, (C)and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
12 Then the man said, (D)“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, (E)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And (F)you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between (G)your seed and (H)her Seed;
(I)He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
(J)In pain you shall bring forth children;
(K)Your desire shall be [c]for your husband,
And he shall (L)rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said, (M)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree (N)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
(O)“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
(P)In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall [d]bring forth for you,
And (Q)you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 (R)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(S)For dust you are,
And (T)to dust you shall return.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 3:8 Or voice
- Genesis 3:8 Or wind, breeze
- Genesis 3:16 Lit. toward
- Genesis 3:18 cause to grow
Isaiah 57:17
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17 For the iniquity of (A)his covetousness
I was angry and struck him;
(B)I hid and was angry,
(C)And he went on [a]backsliding in the way of his heart.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 57:17 Or turning back
Psalm 102:3-5
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3 For my days [a]are (A)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.
5 Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my [b]skin.
Footnotes
- Psalm 102:3 Lit. end in
- Psalm 102:5 flesh
2 Samuel 21:12-14
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12 Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of (A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of [a]Beth Shan, where the (B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa. 13 So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged. 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in (C)Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that (D)God heeded the prayer for the land.
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- 2 Samuel 21:12 Beth Shean, Josh. 17:11
1 Samuel 31:13
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13 Then they took their bones and (A)buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, (B)and fasted seven days.
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