Verse 5

When the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one's youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
  • Song 2:4 : 4 He brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me was love.
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain stand strong: you hid your face, and I was troubled.
  • Deut 33:27-29 : 27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall drive out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them. 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be on a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. 29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your majesty! And your enemies shall be found liars to you; and you shall tread upon their high places.
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
  • Judg 6:12-13 : 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
  • Job 1:2-5 : 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. 4 And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and they would send and call for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
  • Job 23:3 : 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him. 9 On the left hand where he works, but I cannot behold him; he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
  • Job 42:13-16 : 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. 15 In all the land, no women were found as beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:8-9 : 8 In God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever. Selah. 9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame; and do not go forth with our armies.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler who turns aside to stay for a night?
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.