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Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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ASV

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

KJV

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הָֽיְתָה־ha.ye.tah-it has beenH1961 →
לִּ֬יliof me
דִמְעָתִ֣יdim.'a.Titear[s] myH1832 →
לֶ֭חֶםLe.chemfoodH3899 →
יוֹמָ֣םyo.Mamby dayH3119 →
וָלָ֑יְלָהva.La.ye.lahand nightH3915 →
בֶּאֱמֹ֥רbe.'e.Morwhen sayH559 →
אֵלַ֥י'e.Laito meH413 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הַ֝יּ֗וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117 →
אַיֵּ֥ה'ai.Yehwhere?H346 →
אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃'e.lo.Hei.kha[is] God yourH430 →

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Psalms 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.Psalms 79:10Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.Psalms 115:2Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tearsMicah 7:10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.Psalms 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”Psalms 89:19You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.1 Samuel 7:6When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.2 Samuel 15:30But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

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