How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Parallel translations
- KJV How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
- BSB How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
- NKJV How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
- NASB How long am I to feel anxious in my soul, With grief in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
- NLT How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
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- Mic 7:8–10Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
- Jer 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
- Jer 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
- Prov 15:13A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
- Ps 143:3–4For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Lam 1:5Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
- Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
- Ps 142:4–7Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
- Job 23:8–10“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;
- Eccl 5:17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
- Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
- Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- John 16:6But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
- Ps 94:18–19When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Lam 1:9Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn’t remember her latter end; therefore she has come down astoundingly; she has no comforter: “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
- Ps 9:6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
- 1 Sam 18:29Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
- Ps 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
- Ps 17:9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
- Job 9:19–21If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
- Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
- Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- Ps 44:14–16You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
- Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- Phil 2:27For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
- Ps 42:9–10I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- Esth 7:6Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
- 1 Sam 24:19For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
- Job 7:12–15Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
- Ps 8:2From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
- Ps 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
- Ps 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
- Neh 2:2The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
- Job 9:27–28If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
- Rom 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- Ps 7:4–5if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
- Ps 22:7–8All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
- Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
- Ps 77:2–12In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
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