Psalm 71:20
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20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.(A)
Psalm 60:3
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3 You have made your people suffer hard things;
you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.(A)
Psalm 138:7
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7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
you preserve me against the wrath of my enemies;
you stretch out your hand,
and your right hand delivers me.(A)
Hosea 6:1-2
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
Psalm 86:13
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13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.(A)
Psalm 80:18
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18 Then we will never turn back from you;
give us life, and we will call on your name.(A)
Jonah 2:6
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6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Lord my God.(A)
Ezekiel 37:12-13
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12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.(A) 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people.(B)
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Isaiah 38:17
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17 Surely it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back[a] my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.(A)
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- 38.17 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb loved
Psalm 119:25
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25 My soul clings to the dust;
revive me according to your word.(A)
Revelation 7:14
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14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:23-31
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A) 24 Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.(B) 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea;(C) 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;(D) 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,[a] cold and naked.(E) 28 And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?(F)
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.(G) 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus (blessed be he forever!) knows that I do not lie.(H)
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- 11.27 Gk with frequent fasting
Mark 15:34
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34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”[a](A)
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- 15.34 Other ancient authorities read made me a reproach
Mark 14:33-34
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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)
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Isaiah 26:19
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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![b]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[c](A)
Psalm 88:6-18
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6 You have put me in the depths of the Pit,
in the regions dark and deep.(A)
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah(B)
8 You have caused my companions to shun me;
you have made me a thing of horror to them.
I am shut in so that I cannot escape;(C)
9 my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call on you, O Lord;
I spread out my hands to you.(D)
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the shades rise up to praise you? Selah(E)
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your wonders known in the darkness
or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?(F)
13 But I, O Lord, cry out to you;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.(G)
14 O Lord, why do you cast me off?
Why do you hide your face from me?(H)
15 Wretched and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.[a](I)
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your dread assaults destroy me.
17 They surround me like a flood all day long;
from all sides they close in on me.(J)
18 You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me;
my companions are in darkness.(K)
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- 88.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 85:6
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6 Will you not revive us again,
so that your people may rejoice in you?(A)
Psalm 66:10-12
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10 For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.(A)
11 You brought us into the net;
you laid burdens on our backs;(B)
12 you let people ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.[a](C)
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- 66.12 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb to a saturation
Psalm 40:1-3
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Psalm 40
Thanksgiving for Deliverance and Prayer for Help
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.
1 I waited patiently for the Lord;
he inclined to me and heard my cry.(A)
2 He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.(B)
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.(C)
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- 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult
Psalm 16:10
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10 For you do not give me up to Sheol
or let your faithful one see the Pit.(A)
2 Samuel 12:11
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11 Thus says the Lord: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.(A)
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Ephesians 4:9
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9 (When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended[a] into the lower parts of the earth?[b]
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Acts 2:32-34
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32 “This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.(A) 33 Being therefore exalted at[a] the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you see and hear.(B) 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,(C)
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- 2.33 Or by
Acts 2:24
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24 But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.(A)
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