I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Parallel translations
- WEB I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
- BSB I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
- NKJV I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.
- NASB I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.
- NLT I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.
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Quick answer
David pours out his complaint and tells God his troubles. It models honest, unguarded prayer in suffering.
Overview
David holds nothing back, laying his complaint and trouble openly before God. Such candid lament is an act of faith, bringing distress to the One who can help rather than nursing it alone. Believers are likewise invited to cast all anxiety on God, who cares for them (1 Peter 5:7).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Rom 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
- Isa 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- Phil 4:6–7Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
- Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- 1 Sam 1:15–16And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
- Ps 18:4–6The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Ps 102:1–28Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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