Psalms 143:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
  • Ps 142:3 : 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.
  • Ps 102:1 : 1 <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
  • Ps 119:81-83 : 81 <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word. 82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort? 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
  • Ps 124:4 : 4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
  • Job 6:27 : 27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
  • Ps 25:16 : 16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.
  • Ps 55:5 : 5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 142:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

    4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

  • 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    80%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    78%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

  • 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

  • Ps 42:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

    6 My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

  • 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

  • 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

  • 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

  • 3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • 16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • 12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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    3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • 4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

  • 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.