Psalms 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 55:4 in other translations
| BSB | My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me. |
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| WEB | My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. |
| ASV | My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| YLT | My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me. |
| DARBY | My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| BBE | My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. |
| Webster | My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. |
What does Psalms 55:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 55:4-5
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 55:1-8
In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while those increase that have no vent given them. David in great alarm. We may well suppose him to be so, upon the breaking out of Absalom's conspiracy, and the falling away of the people. Horror overwhelmed him. Probably the…
Psalms 55:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 55:4
- Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Mark 14:33-34
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.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- Psalms 18:4-5
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
- Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- Psalms 6:3
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?
- Psalms 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
- Psalms 102:3-5
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Isaiah 38:10-13
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Matthew 26:37-38
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
- John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
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Context
- Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
- Psalms 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
- Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Psalms 55:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mi corazón está doloroso dentro de mí, y terrores de muerte sobre mí han caído. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | À cause de la voix de l’ennemi et devant l’oppression du méchant; car ils font tomber sur moi l’iniquité, et me poursuivent avec passion. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mein Herz ängstigte sich in meinem Innern, und Todesschrecken haben mich befallen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ab altitudine diei timebo: ego vero in te sperabo. |