Psalms 42:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”
King James Version · Public Domain“My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where <FI>is<Fi> thy God?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 42:3 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Deuteronomy 5:26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
- 2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah
- Psalms 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- 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 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
- 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 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalms 84:3Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- Psalms 115:2Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
- Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- 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?’”
- Micah 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.
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