Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Parallel translations
- KJV Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- BSB Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- ESV Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
- NKJV Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.
- NASB Trouble and anguish have come upon me, Yet Your commandments are my delight.
- NLT As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Ps 119:107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
- Ps 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
- Ps 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
- Ps 18:4–5The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Ps 130:1A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Ps 88:3–18For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
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