My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh — how long?
Parallel translations
- KJV My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
- BSB My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
- NKJV My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord—how long?
- NASB And my soul is greatly horrified; But You, Lord—how long?
- NLT I am sick at heart. How long, O Lord, until you restore me?
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
- John 12:27“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
- Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Ps 77:2–3In 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.
- 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 13:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Ps 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Ps 31:9–10Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
- Prov 18:14A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
- Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
- Ps 77:7“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Ps 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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