Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.
And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
And my spirit was in anguish over me. 'Do you first tell your sins, and you shall be saved.' And again: 'If you only sigh for your sins, you shall be saved.' My heart within me was troubled. Because of my conscience, because I sinned.
Jerome· Homily 53, on Psalm 142, 420patristic
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. David was no stoic: he felt his banishment, and smarted under the cruel assaults which were made upon his character. He felt perplexed and overturned, lonely and afflicted. He was a man of thought and feeling, and suffered both in spirit and in heart from the undeserved and unprovoked hostility of his persecutors. Moreover, he laboured under the sense of fearful loneliness; he was for a while forsaken of his God, and his soul was exceeding heavy, even unto death.
The verses this one reaches12
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
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The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
leads to
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day…
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
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Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
leads to
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
Through
Psalms 142:3Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
leads to
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
Through
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
leads to
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
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