11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Holiness
• Prayer
• Suffering and Perseverance

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Sam 1:10 — And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
• 1Sam 1:10 — And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
• 2Cor 2:4 — For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
• 2Kgs 4:27 — And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the
• Gen 42:21 — And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
• Isa 38:15 — What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
• Isa 38:15 — What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
• Isa 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
• Job 6:26 — Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
• Job 7:20 — I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
• Job 10:1 — My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 10:1 — My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 10:15 — If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Job 13:13 — Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
• Job 13:13 — Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
• Job 16:6 — Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
• Job 21:3 — Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
• Job 21:25 — And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
• Job 21:25 — And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
• Job 23:2 — Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
• Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
• Prov 14:10 — The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
• Ps 39:3 — My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
• Ps 40:9 — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
• Ps 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 88:15 — I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.