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Psalms 13:2

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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

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Micah 7:8–10Rank 1 from verse 2
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⁸¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
⁹I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
¹⁰Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 8:18Rank 2 from verse 2
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¹⁸¶ When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah 15:18Rank 3 from verse 2
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¹⁸Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Lamentations 1:5Rank 4 from verse 2
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⁵Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Proverbs 15:13Rank 5 from verse 2
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¹³A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Psalms 143:3–4Rank 6 from verse 2
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³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Ecclesiastes 5:17Rank 7 from verse 2
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¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Job 10:15Rank 8 from verse 2
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¹⁵If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job 23:8–10Rank 9 from verse 2
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⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Psalms 123:3–4Rank 10 from verse 2
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³Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 142:4–7Rank 11 from verse 2
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⁴I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
⁵I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
⁶Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
1 Samuel 18:29Rank 12 from verse 2
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²⁹And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
1 Samuel 24:19Rank 13 from verse 2
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¹⁹For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
Esther 7:6Rank 14 from verse 2
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⁶And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Job 7:12–15Rank 15 from verse 2
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¹²Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
¹³When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
¹⁴Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 9:19–21Rank 16 from verse 2
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¹⁹If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
²⁰If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
²¹Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:27–28Rank 17 from verse 2
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²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
John 16:6Rank 18 from verse 2
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⁶But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Lamentations 1:9Rank 19 from verse 2
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⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Matthew 26:38Rank 20 from verse 2
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³⁸Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Nehemiah 2:2Rank 21 from verse 2
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²Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Philippians 2:27Rank 22 from verse 2
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²⁷For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Psalms 10:18Rank 23 from verse 2
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¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 116:3Rank 24 from verse 2
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³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 17:9Rank 25 from verse 2
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⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms 22:7–8Rank 26 from verse 2
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⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
⁸He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalms 31:18Rank 27 from verse 2
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¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms 42:4Rank 28 from verse 2
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⁴When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psalms 42:9–10Rank 29 from verse 2
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⁹I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 44:14–16Rank 30 from verse 2
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¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psalms 7:2Rank 31 from verse 2
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²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms 7:4–5Rank 32 from verse 2
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⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 74:10Rank 33 from verse 2
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¹⁰O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 74:18Rank 34 from verse 2
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¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 8:2Rank 35 from verse 2
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²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 9:6Rank 36 from verse 2
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⁶O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Psalms 94:18–19Rank 37 from verse 2
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¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Romans 9:2Rank 38 from verse 2
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²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Jeremiah 45:3Rank 39 from verse 2
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³Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Luke 22:53Rank 40 from verse 2
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⁵³When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Psalms 38:17Rank 41 from verse 2
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¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms 77:2–12Rank 42 from verse 2
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²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

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Psalms 13:2

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long

Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

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shall

An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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take

To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

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counsel

1. A purpose, plan, design, or settled decision. 2. Advice, guidance, or direction. 3. Wisdom, judgment, or understanding for determining a course. 4. As a verb, to advise, direct, or recommend a course.

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in

1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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soul

Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

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sorrow

Sense 1: Grief, sadness, anguish, pain, regret, distress, trouble, or heaviness. Sense 2: To grieve or cause such pain.

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heart

Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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exalted

Raised, lifted up, set on high, promoted, honoured, magnified, praised, or increased in position, power, safety, expression, or estimation.

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¹HOW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

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³Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;