Psalms 143:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 142:3 : 3 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.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
  • Ps 102:1 : 1 ¶ A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
  • Ps 119:81-83 : 81 ¶ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 83 ¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
  • Ps 124:4 : 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
  • Job 6:27 : 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
  • Ps 25:16 : 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted.
  • Ps 55:5 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • Ps 142:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3When 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.

    4¶ I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 102:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • 10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • 20Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 21¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

  • 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • 6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

  • 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

  • Ps 42:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

    6¶ O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

    7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

  • 1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • 20My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

  • 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

    18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • 22For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • 7¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

  • 3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

  • Ps 88:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

    4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:

  • 1¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 16For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted.

  • 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

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

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    3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

  • 1¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?

  • 4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

  • 16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

  • 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

  • 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.