Psalms 55:4
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
BSB
ASV
My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
KJV
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
My heart is sore pained within me. His spirit writhed in agony, like a poor worm; he was mentally as much in pain as a woman in travail physically. His inmost soul was touched; and a wounded spirit who can bear? If this were written when David was attacked by his own favourite son, and ignominiously driven from his capital, he had reason enough for using these expressions. And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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
Hebrews 5:7During 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…
leads to
And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus told His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
Through
Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
leads to
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.