I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- BSB I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- NKJV I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- NASB I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go in mourning all day long.
- NLT I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief.
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Cross-references · 11
- Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
- Ps 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
- Ps 42:9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- Ps 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
- Ps 145:14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
- Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- Ps 43:2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Ps 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.
- Ps 88:9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
- Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- Isa 38:14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
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