Psalm 77:3 {76:4}
Good News Translation
When I think of God, I sigh; when I meditate, I feel discouraged.

New Revised Standard Version
I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah

Contemporary English Version
When I think of you, I feel restless and weak.

New American Bible
When I think of God, I groan; as I meditate, my spirit grows faint. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

I remembered

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 23:15,16 And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear. . . .

Job 31:23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Jeremiah 17:17 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

I complained

Psalm 88:3 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Psalm 102:3 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Lamentations 3:17,39 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. . . .

spirit

Psalm 55:4,5 My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. . . .

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 142:2,3 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: . . .

Psalm 143:4,5 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled. . . .

Context
In The Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD
2In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted: 3I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.4My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.…
Cross References
Psalm 42:5
Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,

Psalm 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 43:5
To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

Psalm 55:2
Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

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 107:5
They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

Psalm 142:2
In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

Psalm 142:3
When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

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

Psalm 77:2
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