Psalms 142 · Verse 3

Psalms 142:3

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.
Psalms 142:3, King James Version

Psalms 142:3 in other translations

BSBAlthough my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
WEBWhen my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
ASVWhen my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
YLTWhen my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.
DARBYWhen my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.
BBEWhen my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
WebsterWhen my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

What does Psalms 142:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. thou knewest ... path--The appeal is indicative of conscious innocence; knowest it to be right, and that my affliction is owing to the snares of enemies, and is not deserved (compare Psa 42:4; 61:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Then thou knewest my path - When Saul and his army were about the cave in which I was hidden, thou knewest my path - that I had then no way of escape but by miracle: but thou didst not permit them to know that I was wholly in their power.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 142:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֬ףbe.hit.'a.Tefwhen faints awayH5848
עָלַ֨י\׀'a.Laion meH5921
רוּחִ֗יru.Chispirit myH7307
וְאַתָּה֮ve.'a.Tahand youH859
יָדַ֪עְתָּya.Da'.tayou knowH3045
נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥יne.ti.Va.Tipathway myH5410
בְּאֹֽרַח\־be.'o.rach-in [the] pathH734
ז֥וּzuwhichH2098
אֲהַלֵּ֑ךְ'a.ha.LekhI walkH1980
טָמְנ֖וּta.me.Nupeople have hiddenH2934
פַ֣חfacha snareH6341
לִֽי\׃Lifor me

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 142:3

  • Psalms 140:5

    The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Psalms 141:9

    Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Psalms 143:4

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

  • Psalms 61:2

    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.

  • Mark 14:33-36

    And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

  • Psalms 139:2-4

    Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

  • Jeremiah 18:22

    Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Psalms 102:4

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

  • Psalms 56:6

    They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Psalms 77:3

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

  • Psalms 22:14

    I 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.

  • Job 23:10

    But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
my spirit.
22:14; 61:2; 102:4; 143:4; Mr 14:33-36
then thou.
1:6; 17:3; 139:2-4; Job 23:10
In the way.
31:4; 35:7,8; 56:6; 140:5; 141:9; Jer 18:22; Mt 22:15

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Context

  • Psalms 142:2

    I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

  • Psalms 142:3

    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.

  • Psalms 142:4

    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.

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Psalms 142:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Cuando mi espíritu se angustiaba dentro de mí, tú conociste mi senda. En el camino en que andaba, me escondieron lazo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je répands devant lui ma plainte, je déclare ma détresse devant lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Als mein Geist in mir ermattete, da kanntest du meinen Pfad. Auf dem Wege, den ich wandelte, haben sie mir heimlich eine Schlinge gelegt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quia persecutus est inimicus animam meam; humiliavit in terra vitam meam; collocavit me in obscuris, sicut mortuos sæculi.