Psalms 56:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 56:3

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

WEB

When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

YLT

The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.

DBT

In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee.

About this book

Old Testament

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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.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

19 verses on the floor

1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Psalms 34:4
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
Psalms 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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In the day that I was afraid, etc. In the Hebrew, the words run in the future tense, but they must be resolved into the praeterite. He acknowledges his weakness, in so far as he was sensible of fear, but denies having yielded to it.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

How pleasantly may a good Christian, in singing this psalm, rejoice in God, and praise him for what he will do, as well as for what he has done. Prayer for Help under Oppression;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H982120× in canon H3372315× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 56:3PSA 34:4 PSA 18:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 56:3PSA 34:4 MAT 7:7
PSA 56:3PSA 34:4 PSA 116:1-6
PSA 56:3PSA 34:4 2TI 1:7
PSA 56:3PSA 34:4 ISA 12:2
PSA 56:31SA 30:6 PSA 56:3-4
PSA 56:31SA 30:6 PSA 56:11
PSA 56:31SA 30:6 PSA 62:5

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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