For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Parallel translations
- KJV For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
- BSB For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
- NKJV For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
- NASB For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
- NLT I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- Ps 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
- Ps 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- Isa 53:3–5He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Mic 4:6–7“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
- Ps 77:2–3In 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.
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