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Psalms 38:6
I am bent over and brought low; all day long I go around in mourning.
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Psalms 43:2
For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
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Psalms 18:2
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my mountain where I seek refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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Lamentations 5:1-16
Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest.We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food.Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.Slaves rule over us; no one rescues us from their hands.We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.Women are raped in Zion, girls in the cities of Judah.Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
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Job 30:26-31
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.I am churning within and cannot rest; days of suffering confront me.I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
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Psalms 88:9
My eyes are worn out from crying. Lord, I cry out to You all day long; I spread out my hands to You.
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Psalms 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning?My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest.
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Psalms 78:35
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
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Psalms 55:3
because of the enemy’s voice, because of the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster on me and harass me in anger.
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Psalms 62:2
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will never be shaken.
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Isaiah 40:27
Jacob, why do you say, and Israel, why do you assert:“ My way is hidden from the Lord, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
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Isaiah 49:15
“ Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.
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Psalms 13:1
Lord, how long will You forget me? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
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Psalms 28:1
Lord, I call to You; my rock, do not be deaf to me. If You remain silent to me, I will be like those going down to the Pit.
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Psalms 44:23-24
Wake up, Lord! Why are You sleeping? Get up! Don’t reject us forever!Why do You hide Yourself and forget our affliction and oppression?
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Psalms 62:6-7
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will not be shaken.My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock. My refuge is in God.
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Psalms 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger withheld His compassion?” Selah