Psalm 88:15-16 Part 1 of 2

I have been sick and close to death from my youth.

    I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.

Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me.

    Your terrors have paralyzed me.

I have been sick and close to death from my youth.

Psalm 129:2 

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,

    but they have never defeated me.  (see all Psalm 129)

Jeremiah 22:21  

"I warned you when you were prosperous,

    but you replied, 'Don't bother me.'

You have been that way since childhood--

    you simply will not obey me!"  (see all chapter 22)

Ezekiel 16:22  "In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood."  (see all chapter 16)

Hosea 2:15  

"I will return her vineyards to her

    and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope.

She will give herself to me there,

    as she did long ago when she was young,

    when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt."  (see all chapter 2)

Psalm 9:12  

For he who avenges murder cares for the helpless.

    He does not ignore the cries of those who suffer.  (see all Psalm 9)

 

I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors. 

Job 18:11 

"Terrors surround the wicked

    and trouble them at every step."  (see all chapter 18)

Job 20:25  

"The arrow is pulled from their back,

    and the arrowhead glistens with blood.

The terrors of death are upon them."  (see all chapter 20)

Psalm 55:4  

My heart pounds in my chest.

    The terror of death assaults me.  (see all Psalm 55)

Isaiah 28:19  

"Again and again that flood will come,

    morning after morning,

day and night,

    until you are carried away."

This message will bring terror to your people.  (see all chapter 28)

Lamentations 2:22  

"You have invited terrors from all around,

    as though you were calling them to a day of feasting.

In the day of the LORD's anger,

    no one has escaped or survived.

The enemy has killed all the children

    whom I carried and raised."  (see all chapter 2)

2 Corinthians 4:8  We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  (see all chapter 4)

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