Psalms 142:3

In 11 translations

BSB

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

KJV

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

WEB

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

ASV

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

LSV

When my spirit has been feeble in me, || Then You have known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, || They have hid a snare for me.

YLT

When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

DBY

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.

DRC141:4

When my spirit failed me, then thou newest my paths.

GNV

Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

JPS142:4

When my spirit fainteth within me — Thou knowest my path — in the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me.

LXXE141:4

When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC142:4

בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֬ף עָלַ֨י ׀ רוּחִ֗י וְאַתָּה֮ יָדַ֪עְתָּ נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י בְּאֹֽרַח־ז֥וּ אֲהַלֵּ֑ךְ טָמְנ֖וּ פַ֣ח לִֽי׃KJV:Ps.142.3

LXX-Br141:4

Ἐν τῷ ἐκλείπειν ἐξ ἐμοῦ τὸ πνεῦμά μου, καὶ σὺ ἔγνως τὰς τρίβους μου· ἐν ὁδῷ ταύτῃ ᾗ ἐπορευόμην, ἔκρυψαν παγίδα μοι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
• Psalms 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Psalms 139:2–4You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
• Mark 14:33–36He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.” Going a little farther,…
• Psalms 61:2From 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.
• Psalms 143:4My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
• Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
• Psalms 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
• Psalms 31:4You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
• Psalms 35:7–8For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul. May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
• Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
• Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
• Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
• Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.

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