Psalm 39:11
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11 “You chastise mortals
in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)
Isaiah 50:9
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9 It is the Lord God who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
All of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.(A)
Job 13:28
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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
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30 For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.[a] 31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.(A) 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined[b] so that we may not be condemned along with the world.(B)
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Revelation 3:19
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19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)
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Hebrews 12:6
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6 for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves
and chastises every child whom he accepts.”(A)
1 Corinthians 5:5
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5 you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.[a](A)
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Psalm 102:10-11
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10 because of your indignation and anger,
for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
11 My days are like a lengthening shadow;
I wither away like grass.(A)
2 Peter 2:16
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16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
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Hosea 5:12
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12 Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.(A)
Psalm 90:7-10
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7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(A)
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(B)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(C)
Job 30:30
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30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(A)
Job 4:19
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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth.(A)
Psalm 38:1-8
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Psalm 38
A Penitent Sufferer’s Plea for Healing
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.(A)
2 For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.(B)
3 There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.(C)
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head;
they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.(D)
5 My wounds grow foul and fester
because of my foolishness;(E)
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all day long I go around mourning.(F)
7 For my loins are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.(G)
8 I am utterly spent and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.(H)
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