Psalm 142:3 {141:4}
Good News Translation
When I am ready to give up, he knows what I should do. In the path where I walk, my enemies have hidden a trap for me.

New Revised Standard Version
When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

Contemporary English Version
and whenever I feel low, you are there to guide me. A trap has been hidden along my pathway.

New American Bible
When my spirit is faint within me, you know my path. As I go along this path, they have hidden a trap for me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

my spirit

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 61:2 To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;

Psalm 102:4 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Psalm 143:4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Mark 14:33-36 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

then thou

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 17:3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.

Psalm 139:2-4 Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up. . . .

Job 23:10 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

in the way

Psalm 31:4 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.

Psalm 35:7,8 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. . . .

Psalm 56:6 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Psalm 141:9 Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.

Matthew 22:15 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

Context
I Lift My Voice to the LORD
2In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: 3When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.…
Cross References
Psalm 77:3
I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Psalm 143:4
And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Jonah 2:7
I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

Psalm 142:2
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