Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Tossings
General references
Bible References
When
Job 7:13
“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
Job 17:12
“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
Job 30:17
“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.
I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Psalm 77:4
You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 130:6
My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.
My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.
Tossings
Psalm 109:23
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
Isaiah 54:11
“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
General references
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.