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The collection includes laments as well as examples of friendship and mutual care. It does not treat loneliness as a personal fault or promise that one line will make it disappear. Some biblical characters remained in difficult circumstances for a long time.

Psalm 22 begins with a cry of abandonment and moves toward communal praise; quoting only its opening changes its shape. The Gospels describe Jesus’ isolation in a specific story. Read the whole chapter before applying either account to another person.

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This editorial collection contains 42 distinct passages. Read these examples in context, or use the generator to discover more.

Psalm 25:16-18

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

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Psalm 68:5-6

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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Psalm 88:13-14

But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

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Psalm 139:7-10

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

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Isaiah 49:14-16

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

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Hebrews 10:24-25

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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