The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Parallel translations
- KJV The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
- BSB The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.
- ESV The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.
- NKJV The troubles of my heart have enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses!
- NASB The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses.
- NLT My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 107:6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
- 2 Cor 4:8–9We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
- Hab 3:17–19For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
- Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Ps 77:2–4In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- 1 Cor 4:11–13Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
- Ps 38:1–8A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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