Psalms 119:153
Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
BSB
ASV
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.
KJV
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
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Psalms 119:141I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
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But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
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Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
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You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
ר, RESH.--The Twentieth Part. RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me,.... Or, "look upon mine affliction" (e); as in Psa 25:
