New English Translation
Psalms 143:4
4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
Psalms 143:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- New International Version (NIV)So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed.
Context of Psalms 143:4
2Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you. 3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages. My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked. 5I recall the old days; I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments. 6I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.
Read all of Psalms 143Psalms 143:4 word by word
וַתִּתְעַטֵּ֣ף עָלַ֣י רוּחִ֑י בְּ֝תוֹכִ֗י יִשְׁתּוֹמֵ֥ם לִבִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 143:4
- Psalms 55:5Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.
- Psalms 61:2From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!
- Psalms 77:3I said, “I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.” (Selah)
- Psalms 102:1O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!
- Psalms 124:4The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.
- Psalms 142:3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
- Job 6:27Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
- Psalms 25:16Turn toward me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and oppressed!
- Psalms 102:3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
- Psalms 119:81I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.
- Luke 22:44And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
Commentaries on Psalms 143:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me - See the notes at Psalm 77:3. Compare Psalm 42:5-7. His spirit was broken and crushed. He was in a state of despair as to any human help. My heart within me is desolate - I have no comfort; no cheerfulness; no hope. My soul is like the waste desert where there is no water; where nothing grows; where there are only rocks and sands.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4My spirit grows faint within me: The psalmist admits his desperation as his life seems to slip away under cruel and powerful enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. The exciting reason for his prayer--his afflictions--led to confession as just made: he now makes the complaint. as those that have been long dead--deprived of life's comforts (compare Psa 40:15; 88:3-6).Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 4is appalled Heb. ישתומם, an expression of daze and astonishment, like (Ezek. 3:15): “and I remained there overwhelmed (משמים) among them seven days.” Also (II Sam. 13:20): “and Tamar sat, overwhelmed (ושוממה).”Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 143
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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