New King James Version
Psalms 143:4
4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed.
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 Living Translation (NLT)I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.
Context of Psalms 143:4
2Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous. 3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in darkness, Like those who have long been dead. Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed. 5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. 6I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land. Selah
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 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 61:2From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah
- Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry come to You.
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
- Psalms 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.
- Job 6:27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.
- Psalms 25:16Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.
- Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
- Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.
- Luke 22:44And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down 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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