Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- BSB My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
- NKJV Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed.
- NASB Therefore my spirit feels weak within me; My heart is appalled within me.
- NLT I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
- Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
- Ps 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
- Ps 102:3–4For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Job 6:27Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
- Ps 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
- Ps 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 119:81–83My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
- Ps 124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
- 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.
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