When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
- NKJV When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.
- NASB When my spirit felt weak within me, You knew my path. In the way where I walk They have hidden a trap for me.
- NLT When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
- Ps 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
- Ps 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Mark 14:33–36He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- Ps 143:4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
- Ps 102:4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
- Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
- Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
- Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
- Ps 31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
- Ps 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Ps 139:2–4You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
- Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
- Ps 35:7–8For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
- Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
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