Psalms 55:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
  • Ps 88:3 : 3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 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. 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
  • Isa 38:10-13 : 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me. 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world. 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain. 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled. 38 Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him. 34 And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
  • John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: 10 Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
  • Ps 6:3 : 3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3The 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.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Isa 21:3-4
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    3For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

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

  • Ps 116:3
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    3The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    4The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

    5The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20See, 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.

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 88:15-16
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    15I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

    16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • Job 3:25
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    25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    79%

    5For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

    6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Ps 55:3
    78%

    3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Job 30:15-17
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    78%

    15Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

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

    17The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • Ps 38:8
    78%

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

  • Ps 73:21
    77%

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

  • Ps 40:12
    77%

    12For 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.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14I 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.

    15My 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.

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

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

  • Ps 38:10
    77%

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

  • Jer 4:19
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    19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

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    1At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

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    76%

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

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    76%

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

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    76%

    3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

  • Job 4:14
    76%

    14Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

  • Ps 109:22
    75%

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

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    2 verses
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    4My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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

  • Ps 38:6
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    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • Ps 25:17
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    17The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

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

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    74%

    53I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

  • Job 21:6
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    6At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

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  • Lam 1:13
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  • Job 7:15
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    15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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