Psalms 44:19

Yet God has crushed them in a desolate place and covered them with deathly darkness. It matters because it laments suffering so severe it feels like death itself.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
• Jer 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
• Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
• Isa 34:13–14And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Ps 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
• Ezek 29:3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
• Rev 13:2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
• Rev 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
• Ps 60:1–3O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
• Rev 13:11–13And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
• Isa 27:1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Matt 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• Ps 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Ps 74:13–14Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
• Isa 35:7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
• Job 10:21–22Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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