My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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… When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, Where is your God? These things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I would go with a throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude-keeping festival. Why are you downcast, O my soul? And why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation, my God. My soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon and from Mount Mazar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love and at night his song is with me. A prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock, why have you forgotten me? …
… My soul is panting for God. He said, my tears have been my food day and night while people say to me all day long, where is your God? In other words, he's in a little bit of distress and people are mocking him like, hmm, so where's God? When's he coming through for you? But he said, these things I remember. I remember God. I remember the courts of God and the house of God as I pour out my soul. I remember how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the mighty one. with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Have you ever noticed those two words in the Bible before? He said, I remember when I used to go to the house of God, to the courts of God. I remember the shouts. I remember the praise. I remember the festive throng. Can I just say this is why we gather today? because there is something different about coming together in this space with a common heartbeat, a common mindset, and a common passion for something, in this case, someone that we love. …
… so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God. My tears have been my food day and night. Why people say to me all day long, where is your God? These things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the mighty one with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Now that's not where I am right now. So he says, why my soul are you downcast? And why so disturbed within me? Put your hope, there's our word, in God. For I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me. Therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls. All your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day, the Lord directs his love. And at night, his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock, why have you forsaken me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? …