Psalms 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Psalms 56:3 in other translations
| BSB | When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. |
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| WEB | When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. |
| ASV | What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. |
| YLT | The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee. |
| DARBY | In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee. |
| BBE | In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you. |
| Webster | In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee. |
What does Psalms 56:3 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 56:1-7
Be merciful unto me, O God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need no more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea, not our merit, but God's mercy, his free, rich mercy. We may flee to, and trust the mercy of God, when surrounded on all sides by difficulties and dangers. His enemies were too hard for him, if God did not help him. He…
Psalms 56:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 56:3
- Psalms 34:4
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
- 1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:5-6
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Psalms 55:4-5
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
- 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;
- Psalms 11:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
- 1 Samuel 21:12
And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
- 2 Chronicles 20:3
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
- 1 Samuel 21:10
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
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Context
- Psalms 56:2
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- Psalms 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Psalms 56:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En el día que temo, yo en ti confío. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes ennemis voudraient tout le jour m’engloutir; car il y en a beaucoup qui me font la guerre, avec hauteur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | An dem Tage, da ich mich fürchte, vertraue ich auf dich. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Clamabo ad Deum altissimum, Deum qui benefecit mihi. |