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Psalms 69:20
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Psalms 69:20
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
20Reproch hath broken my heart, and I am full of heauines: and I looked for some †to take pitie, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
- Heb. to lament with me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 69:20
Shame; infamy; disgrace. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Compassion or sorrow awakened by another's distress; as a verb, to feel or show compassion.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
comforters
Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress; also to strengthen, encourage, or console.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
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Open the full verse study2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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Open the full verse study4I 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.
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Open the full verse study50And they all forsook him, and fled.
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Open the full verse study56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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Open the full verse study16At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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Open the full verse study27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
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Open the full verse study32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
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Open the full verse study36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
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Open the full verse study21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Open the full verse study37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
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Open the full verse study37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
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Open the full verse study4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
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Open the full verse study10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
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Open the full verse study6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
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