Psalm 142:3 Parallel Translations

When I begin to lose hope, you already know what I am experiencing. My enemies have hidden a trap for me on the path where I walk.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

BBE:

When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

DBY:

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.

ERV:

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me.

JPS:

When my spirit fainteth within me--Thou knowest my path--in the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me.

WBS:

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

WEB:

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

YLT:

When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

Psalm 142:3 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 77:3 When I remember God, then I am disturbed; When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.

Psalm 143:4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart is appalled within me. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

142:3 For - This is not a reason of what he last said, but an argument to enforce his petition delivered, ver.1. Soul - My life; nothing less will satisfy him. Dead - I am in as hopeless a condition in the eye of man, as those that have lain long in the grave. Knowest - So as to direct me to it. My path - What paths I should chuse whereby I might escape.

MHC:

142:1-7 David's comfort in prayer. - There can be no situation so distressing or dangerous, in which faith will not get comfort from God by prayer. We are apt to show our troubles too much to ourselves, poring upon them, which does us no service; whereas, by showing them to God, we might cast the cares upon him who careth for us, and thereby ease ourselves. Nor should we allow any complaint to ourselves or others, which we cannot make to God. When our spirits are overwhelmed by distress, and filled with discouragement; when we see snares laid for us on every side, while we walk in his way, we may reflect with comfort that the Lord knoweth our path. Those who in sincerity take the Lord for their God, find him all-sufficient, as a Refuge, and as a Portion: every thing else is a refuge of lies, and a portion of no value. In this situation David prayed earnestly to God. We may apply it spiritually; the souls of believers are often straitened by doubts and fears. And it is then their duty and interest to beg of God to set them at liberty, that they may run the way of his commandments. Thus the Lord delivered David from his powerful persecutors, and dealt bountifully with him. Thus he raised the crucified Redeemer to the throne of glory, and made him Head over all things for his church. Thus the convinced sinner cries for help, and is brought to praise the Lord in the company of his redeemed people; and thus all believers will at length be delivered from this evil world, from sin and death, and praise their Saviour for ever.

CONC:

Faint Fainteth Feeble Goings Grows Hast Hid Hidden Knewest Laid Nets Overcome Overwhelmed Path Placed Privily Secretly Snare Spirit Trap Walk Walked Wherein Within

Eyes Faint Fainteth Feeble Goings Grows Hid Hidden Knewest Laid Nets Overcome Overwhelmed Path Placed Privily Secretly Snare Spirit Trap Walk Walked Way Wherein Within

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