Psalms 42:3

In 11 translations

BSB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

KJV

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

WEB

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

ASV

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

LSV

My tear has been bread day and night to me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”

YLT

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where [is] thy God?'

DBY

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?Elohim

DRC41:4

My tears have been any bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

GNV

My teares haue bin my meate day and night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?

JPS42:4

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say unto me all the day: 'Where is Thy God?'

LXXE41:4

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?

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WLC42:4

הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֬י דִמְעָתִ֣י לֶ֭חֶם יוֹמָ֣ם וָלָ֑יְלָה בֶּאֱמֹ֥ר אֵלַ֥י כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם אַיֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃KJV:Ps.42.3

LXX-Br41:4

Ἐγενήθη τὰ δάκρυά μου ἐμοὶ ἄρτος ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς, ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαί μοι καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ Θεός σου;

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• Psalms 79:10Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
• Psalms 115:2Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
• Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they…
• Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
• Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• Micah 7:10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
• Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
• Psalms 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
• 2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
• Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

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