Psalms 142:4

\142:3\When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3\142:2\I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

5\142:4\Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?

Job 11:20But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Psalms 1:6Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

Psalms 69:20\69:19\You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Psalms 88:18\88:17\They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

Psalms 141:9Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 142:2-4

David's Complaints. 1 I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble. 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. Whether it was in the cave of Adullam, or that of Engedi, that David prayed this prayer, is not material; it is plain that he was in distress. It was a great disgrace to so great a soldier, so… Read the whole commentary →

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