I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
- BSB I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- NKJV I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah
- NASB When I remember God, then I am restless; When I sigh, then my spirit feels weak. Selah
- NLT I think of God, and I moan, overwhelmed with longing for his help. Interlude
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 142:2–3I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
- 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.
- Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
- Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- Ps 143:4–5Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Ps 102:3–28For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
- Ps 55:4–5My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
- Job 23:15–16Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
- Jer 17:17Don’t be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
- Lam 3:39Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Lam 3:17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
- Ps 88:3–18For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
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