6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. 7 I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop. 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
Psalms 102:6–8
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Lamentations 3:13–15
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Job 30:28–30
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Job 16:19–21
19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. 20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. 21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
Psalms 38:5–7
5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. 6 I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning. 7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Psalms 38:13–15
13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth. 14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply. 15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
Psalms 42:9–11
9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?” 10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the…
Psalms 109:24–26
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Psalms 22:1–3
1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? 2 I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I h…
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