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Psalms
  1. 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
  2. 18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
  3. 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
  4. 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
  5. 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
  6. 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
  7. 30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
  8. 31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
  9. 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
  10. 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  11. 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
  12. 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
  13. 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  14. 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
  15. 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
  16. 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  17. 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
  18. 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
  19. 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
  20. 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
  21. 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
  22. 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
  23. 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
  24. 55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
  25. 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
  26. 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
  27. 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
  28. 66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
  29. 68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
  30. 68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
  31. 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
  32. 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
  33. 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
  34. 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
  35. 69:20 Reproach 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.
  36. 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  37. 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
  38. 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
  39. 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
  40. 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
  41. 76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
  42. 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  43. 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
  44. 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  45. 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
  46. 78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
  47. 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  48. 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
  49. 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
  50. 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

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