16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. 17 All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. 18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
Psalms 88:16–18
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Psalms 88:6–8
6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. 7 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah 8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Job 30:13–15
13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them. 14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in. 15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity…
2 Samuel 22:4–6
4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. 5 For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me. 6 The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Psalms 6:6–8
6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. 7 My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes. 8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Job 16:6–8
6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? 7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. 8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
Psalms 18:3–5
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me. 5 The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Lamentations 3:53–55
53 They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. 54 The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
Psalms 143:2–4
2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You. 3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead. 4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed i…
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