Psalms 143:4
My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
BSB
ASV
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
KJV
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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.
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.
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Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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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
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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.
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I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
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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.
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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
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Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
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When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.