Tree of Life Version
Psalms 143:4
4So my spirit grows faint within me. My heart is shocked within me.
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 bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous. 3For an enemy pursues my soul. He crushes my life down to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long dead. So my spirit grows faint within me. My heart is shocked within me. 5I remember the days of old. I meditate on all You have done. I ponder the work of Your hands. 6I spread forth my hands to You. My soul longs for You as a parched 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 55:5My heart shudders within me and the terrors of death sweep over me.
- Psalms 61:2Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer.
- Psalms 77:3In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord. At night my hand stretches out untiringly. My soul refuses to be comforted.
- Psalms 102:1A prayer of the afflicted one, when he is faint and pours out his lament before Adonai:
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over our soul,
- Psalms 142:3I pour out my complaint before Him, before Him I tell my trouble.
- Job 6:27Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?
- Psalms 25:16Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
- Psalms 102:3Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.
- Psalms 119:81My soul faints with longing for Your salvation, but I still hope in Your word.
- Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He was praying fervently; and His sweat was like drops of blood falling down on 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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