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Psalms 69:3
I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long,“ Where is your God?”
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Psalms 38:9
All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
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Lamentations 3:48-50
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.
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Psalms 77:2-9
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:“ Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”
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Psalms 143:4-7
So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.Answer me quickly, Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
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Lamentations 1:16
“ This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”
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Job 16:20
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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Lamentations 1:2
Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
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Psalms 88:9
my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
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Luke 7:38
As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
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Psalms 102:3-5
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
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Psalms 39:12
“ Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
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Jeremiah 14:17
“ Speak this word to them:“‘ Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for the Virgin Daughter, my people, has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow.
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Job 10:1
“ I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 7:3
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
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Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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Job 23:2
“ Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
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Lamentations 2:18-19
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. You walls of Daughter Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.