Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
KJV
As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
ASV
אוֹמְרָ֤ה לְ/אֵ֥ל סַלְעִ/י֮ לָ/מָ֪ה שְׁכַ֫חְתָּ֥/נִי לָֽ/מָּה קֹדֵ֥ר אֵלֵ֗ךְ בְּ/לַ֣חַץ אוֹיֵֽב
Hebrew
With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'
YLT
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֣ל
'l
noun · 244×
י
y
verb · 282×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
לַ֣חַץ
lchts
noun · 12×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
סֶּ֔לַע
sl'
noun · 59×
קֹדֵ֥ר
qdr
verb · 16×
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי
shkchty
verb · 102×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 29.—What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue Them from the Fury of Their Enemies. The whole family of God, most high and most true, has therefore a consolation of its own,—a consolation which cannot deceive, and which has in it a surer hope than the tottering and falling affairs of earth can af…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 2:14 — And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elish
- Gen 21:9 — And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Isa 36:7 — But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
- Joel 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
- Joel 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
- Luke 2:35 — (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
- Mic 7:10 — Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
- Prov 18:14 — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
- Prov 24:17 — Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
- Ps 3:2 — Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
- Ps 14:6 — Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
- Ps 22:8 — He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Ps 42:3 — My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- Ps 42:3 — My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- Ps 55:22 — Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
- Ps 79:10 — Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
- Ps 115:2 — Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
- Ps 119:22 — Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
- Ps 119:42 — So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.