Salmos 142:3

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Cuando mi espíritu desmayaba dentro de mí, tú conociste mi senda. En la senda en que camino me han tendido una trampa.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Cuando mi esp�ritu se angustiaba dentro de m�, t� conociste mi senda. En el camino en que andaba, me escondieron lazo.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Cuando mi esp�ritu se angustiaba dentro de m�, t� conociste mi senda. En el camino en que andaba, me escondieron lazo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my spirit: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 61:2, Psalms 102:4, Psalms 143:4, Mark 14:33-36

then thou: Psalms 1:6, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 139:2-4, Job 23:10

In the way: Psalms 31:4, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:8, Psalms 56:6, Psalms 140:5, Psalms 141:9, Jeremiah 18:22, Matthew 22:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then Exodus 3:7 - I know 1 Samuel 1:15 - poured 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague Job 21:4 - is my complaint Psalms 11:2 - that Psalms 31:7 - known Psalms 42:5 - Why art thou cast down Psalms 57:6 - my soul Psalms 77:3 - spirit Psalms 86:7 - General Psalms 102:1 - overwhelmed Lamentations 3:55 - General Hosea 13:5 - know John 5:6 - and knew

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,.... Ready to sink and faint under the present affliction, being attended with the hidings of God's face, and with unbelieving frames; which is sometimes the case of God's people, and with which they are as it were covered and overwhelmed, as well as with a sense of sin, and with shame and sorrow for it; see Psalms 61:2;

then thou knewest my path: the eyes of the Lord are upon all men, and he knows their goings, none of them are hid from him; and he sees and approves of the way, of the life and conversation of his people in general; and particularly observes what way they take under affliction, which is to apply to him for help and deliverance, Psalms 1:6. R. Moses in Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of the path he walked in, which was right and not evil, for which he could appeal to God, that knows all things; it may literally intend the path David took to escape the fury of Saul, that pursued him from place to place;

in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me; let him take which way he would, there were spies upon him, or men that were in ambush to take him; and snares were everywhere laid for him to entrap him; see Psalms 140:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me - Luther renders this, “When my spirit was in distress.” The Hebrew word rendered “overwhelmed” means, in Kal, to cover as with a garment; then, to be covered as with darkness, trouble, sorrow; and then, to languish, to faint, to be feeble: Psalms 77:3; Psalms 107:5. The idea here is, that, in his troubles, he had no vigor, no life, no spirit. He did not see how he could escape from his troubles, and he had no heart to make an effort.

Then thou knewest my path - Thou didst see all. Thou didst see the way that I was treading, and all its darkness and dangers, implying here that God had made it an object to mark his course; to see what egress there might be - what way to escape from the danger. It was in no sense concealed from God, and no danger of the way was hidden from him. It is much for us to feel when we are in danger or difficulty that God knows it all, and that nothing can be hidden from him.

In the way wherein I walked - In my path; the path that I was treading.

Have they privily laid a snare for me - They treated me as a man would treat his neighbor, who should spread a snare, or set a trap, for him in the path which he knew he must take. The word rendered “have privily laid” means to hide, to conceal. It was so concealed that I could not perceive it. They did it unknown to me. I neither knew that it was laid, nor where it was laid. They meant to spring it upon me at a moment when I was not aware, and when I should be taken by surprise. It was not open and manly warfare; it was stealth, cunning, trick, art.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 142:3. 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.