Psalms 142:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.”
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“Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way <FI>in<Fi> which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 142:3 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- Psalms 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- Psalms 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 31:4You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 61:2From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
- Psalms 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
- Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
- Psalms 143:4My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
- Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
- Mark 14:33He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed.
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