How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Cross References
Psalm 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Psalm 38:17For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Psalm 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
Psalm 42:9I say to God my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?"
Psalm 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
Habakkuk 1:2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, "Violence!" but You do not save?
Treasury of Scripture
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
take
Psalm 77:2-12
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted…
Psalm 94:18,19
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up…
Psalm 142:4-7
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul…
sorrow
Psalm 38:17
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Nehemiah 2:2
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
enemy
Psalm 7:2,4,5
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver…
Psalm 8:2
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalm 9:6
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
exalted
Psalm 22:7,8
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, …
Psalm 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalm 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
