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Psalms 42:9–10

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I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
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From verse 9

  1. Psalms 38:6Rank 1 from verse 9
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    6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  2. Psalms 18:2Rank 2 from verse 9
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    2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

  3. Psalms 43:2Rank 3 from verse 9
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    2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  4. Isaiah 40:27Rank 4 from verse 9
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    27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  5. Lamentations 5:1–16Rank 5 from verse 9
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    1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

    2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

    3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

    4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

    5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

    7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

    8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

    9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

    10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

    11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

    12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

    13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

    14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

    15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

    16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

From verse 10

  1. Psalms 42:3Rank 1 from verse 10
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    3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  2. Joel 2:17Rank 2 from verse 10
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    17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

  3. Luke 2:35Rank 3 from verse 10
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    35(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

  4. Proverbs 12:18Rank 4 from verse 10
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    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  5. Micah 7:10Rank 5 from verse 10
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    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.

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Psalms 42:9

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

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rock

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1. A mass of stone or a rocky place. 2. Figuratively, a secure refuge, strength, foundation, or cause of stumbling. 3. A title or figure for God or Christ.

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hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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mourning

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Psalms 42:10

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in

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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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reproach

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Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.

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COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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8Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

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11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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