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Jer. 45:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

Thou didst say, Woe is me nowl! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I faintedm in my sighing, and I findn no rest.

Job 23:2• ²Also today [is] my complaint rebellion,{HR}My stroke is heavier than my groaning. (Job 23:2)

Psa. 27:13• ¹³If I had not trusted{HR}To look upon the goodness of Jehovah{HR}In the land of the living! (Psa. 27:13)

Psa. 77:3‑4• ³I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak. (Psa. 77:3‑4)

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Woe.

Jer. 9:1• ¹Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (Jer. 9:1)

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Jer. 15:10‑21• ¹⁰{i}Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.{/i}
¹¹Jehovah said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
¹²Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
¹³Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
¹⁴And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
¹⁵{i}Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.{/i}
¹⁶{i}Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.{/i}
¹⁷{i}I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail?{/i}
¹⁹Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
²⁰And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, {i}saith Jehovah;{/i}
²¹{i}yea{/i}, I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. (Jer. 15:10‑21)

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Jer. 20:7‑18• ⁷{i}Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.{/i}
⁸{i}For as oft as I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and spoil; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and a derision all the day.{/i}
⁹{i}And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.{/i}
¹⁰{i}For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side: Report, and we will report it. All my familiars are watching for my stumbling: Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take our revenge on him.{/i}
¹¹But Jehovah is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
¹²But, Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
¹³Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
¹⁶{i}And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,{/i}
¹⁷{i}because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!{/i}
¹⁸{i}Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?{/i} (Jer. 20:7‑18)

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Psa. 120:5• ⁵Alas for me, that I sojourn [in] Mesech,{HR}That I dwell with the tents of Kedar! (Psa. 120:5)

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Gen. 37:34‑35• ³⁴And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
³⁵And all his sons rose up, and all his daughters, to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. And his father wept for him. (Gen. 37:34‑35)

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Gen. 42:36‑38• ³⁶And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have made me childless: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things fall on me.
³⁷And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons if I bring him not back to thee again; give him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
³⁸But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. (Gen. 42:36‑38)

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Num. 11:11‑15• ¹¹{i}And Moses said to Jehovah, Why hast thou done evil to thy servant, and why have I not found favour in thine eyes, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?{/i}
¹²{i}Have I conceived all this people, have I brought them forth, that thou sayest to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as the nursing-father beareth the suckling, unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers?{/i}
¹³{i}Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat!{/i}
¹⁴{i}I am not able to bear all this people alone, for it is too heavy for me.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.{/i} (Num. 11:11‑15)

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Josh. 7:7‑9• ⁷And Joshua said, Alas! O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan!
⁸O Jehovah, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
⁹For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? (Josh. 7:7‑9)

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Job 16:11‑13• ¹¹God hath shut me up to the unrighteous,{HR}And thrown me over into the hand of the wicked.
¹²I sat at ease, and he smashed me,{HR}And seized me by the neck, and dashed me,{HR}And set me as a mark for himself;
¹³His arrows compassed me about;{HR}He cleaveth my reins, and spareth not.{HR}He poureth out my gall on the ground. (Job 16:11‑13)

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Job 23:2• ²Also today [is] my complaint rebellion,{HR}My stroke is heavier than my groaning. (Job 23:2)

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Psa. 42:7• ⁷Deep is calling unto deep at the voice of thy waterfalls;{HR}All thy waves and thy billows have passed over me. (Psa. 42:7)

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Lam. 3:1‑19,32• ¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
²He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
⁷{i}He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.{HR}{/i}
⁸{i}Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.{HR}{/i}
⁹{i}He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.{/i}
¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from Jehovah.
¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:1‑19,32)

I fainted.

Jer. 8:18• ¹⁸{i}My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!{/i} (Jer. 8:18)

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Psa. 27:13• ¹³If I had not trusted{HR}To look upon the goodness of Jehovah{HR}In the land of the living! (Psa. 27:13)

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Psa. 77:3‑4• ³I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak. (Psa. 77:3‑4)

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Prov. 24:10• ¹⁰[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble,{HR}Thy strength [is] small. (Prov. 24:10)

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Lam. 1:13,22• ¹³From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:{HR}He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:{HR}He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
²²Let all their wickedness come before thee;{HR}And do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions:{HR}For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. (Lam. 1:13,22)

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2 Cor. 4:1,16• ¹On this account, having this ministry, according as we obtained mercy, we faint not,
¹⁶Wherefore we fail not; but even if our outer man is consuming, yet the inner is being renewed day by day. (2 Cor. 4:1,16)

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Gal. 6:9• ⁹But in well-doing let us not be faint-hearted, for in due time we shall reap, if we do not faint. (Gal. 6:9)

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2 Thess. 3:13• ¹³But ye, brethren, faint not in well-doing. (2 Thess. 3:13)

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Heb. 12:3‑5• ³For consider well him that endured so great contradiction by sinners against himself, that ye weary not, fainting in your souls.
⁴Not yet unto blood resisted ye, wrestling against sin.
⁵And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation the which discourseth with you as sons, My son, regard not lightly Jehovah's chastening, nor faint when reproved of him: (Heb. 12:3‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.

W. Kelly Translation

thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.