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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 142:6

Help! They are chasing me, and they are too strong.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jonah;   Prayer;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cry, Crying;   Psalms, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen to my cry,for I am very weak.Rescue me from those who pursue me,for they are too strong for me.
Hebrew Names Version
Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
King James Version
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
English Standard Version
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!
New Century Version
Listen to my cry, because I am helpless. Save me from those who are chasing me, because they are too strong for me.
New English Translation
Listen to my cry for help, for I am in serious trouble! Rescue me from those who chase me, for they are stronger than I am.
Amplified Bible
"Give attention to my cry, For I am brought very low; Rescue me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.
New American Standard Bible
"Give Your attention to my cry, For I have been brought very low; Rescue me from my persecutors, For they are too strong for me.
World English Bible
Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hearken vnto my crye, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecuters, for they are too strong for me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Give heed to my cry of lamentation,For I am brought very low;Deliver me from my persecutors,For they are too strong for me.
Berean Standard Bible
Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
Complete Jewish Bible
I cried out to you, Adonai ; I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."
Darby Translation
Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to my prayer. I am so weak. Save me from those who are chasing me. They are stronger than I am.
George Lamsa Translation
Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
Good News Translation
Listen to my cry for help, for I am sunk in despair. Save me from my enemies; they are too strong for me.
Lexham English Bible
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.
Literal Translation
Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from those who pursue me; for they are stronger than I.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oh delyuer me fro my persecuters, for they are to stronge for me:
American Standard Version
Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have cried unto Thee, O LORD;
King James Version (1611)
Attend vnto my crie, for I am brought very low, deliuer mee from my persecuters: for they are stronger then I.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Consider my complaynt, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecutours, for they are to strong for me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.
English Revised Version
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou tent to my biseching; for Y am maad low ful greetli. Delyuere thou me fro hem that pursuen me; for thei ben coumfortid on me.
Update Bible Version
Attend to my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
Webster's Bible Translation
Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
New King James Version
Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.
New Living Translation
Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
New Life Bible
Listen to my cry, for I am brought down. Save me from those who make it hard for me. For they are too strong for me.
New Revised Standard
Give heed to my cry, for I am brought very low. Save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Attend thou unto my loud cry, for I am brought very low, - Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(141-7) Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Revised Standard Version
Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me!
Young's Literal Translation
Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Give heed to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are too strong for me.

Contextual Overview

4 Even if you look, you won't see anyone who cares enough to walk beside me. There is no place to hide, and no one who really cares. 5 I pray to you, Lord ! You are my place of safety, and you are my choice in the land of the living. Please answer my prayer. I am completely helpless. 6 Help! They are chasing me, and they are too strong. 7 Rescue me from this prison, so I can praise your name. And when your people notice your wonderful kindness to me, they will rush to my side.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for I am: Psalms 44:24-26, Psalms 79:8, Psalms 116:6, Psalms 136:23, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:7

for they: Psalms 3:1, Psalms 38:19, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 57:4, Psalms 59:3, 1 Samuel 24:14, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:11 - Deliver Psalms 9:13 - consider Psalms 17:1 - attend Psalms 25:2 - let not Psalms 31:15 - deliver Psalms 35:17 - rescue Psalms 40:2 - brought Jeremiah 31:11 - stronger Acts 12:7 - And his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Attend unto my cry,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered;

for I am brought very low; in his spirit, in the exercise of grace, being in great affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened, impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist him, Psalms 79:8;

deliver me from my persecutors; Saul and his men, who were in pursuit of him with great warmth and eagerness;

for they are stronger than I; more in number, and greater in strength; Saul had with him three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, ablebodied men, and expert in war; veteran troops, and in high spirits, with their king at the head of them; David had about six hundred men, and these poor mean creatures, such as were in distress, in debt, and discontented, and in want of provisions, and dispirited; see

1 Samuel 22:2. So the spiritual enemies of the Lord's people are stronger than they, Jeremiah 31:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Attend unto my cry - Give ear to me when I cry to thee. Do not turn away and refuse to hear me.

For I am brought very low - I am reduced greatly; I am made very poor. The language would be applicable to one who had been in better circumstances, and who had been brought down to a condition of danger, of poverty, of want. It is language which is commonly applied to poverty.

Deliver me from my persecutors - Saul and his followers.

For they are stronger than I - More in number; better armed; better suited for battle.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 142:6. I am brought very low — Never was I so near total ruin before.

Deliver me from my persecutors — They are now in full possession of the only means of my escape.

They are stronger than I. — What am I and my men against this well-appointed armed multitude, with their king at their head.


 
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