Psalm 142:1-3 Part 2 of 2

I cry out to the LORD;

    I plead for the LORD's mercy.

I pour out my complaints before him

    and tell him all my troubles.

When I am overwhelmed,

    you alone know the way I should turn.

Wherever I go,

    my enemies have set traps for me. 

     

When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn.

Psalm 6:2

Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.

    Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.  (see all Psalm 6)

Psalm 77:3  

I think of God, and I moan,

    overwhelmed with longing for his help.  (see all Psalm 77)

Psalm 143:4  

I am losing all hope;

    I am paralyzed with fear.

Psalm 143:7  

Come quickly, LORD, and answer me,

    for my depression deepens.

Don't turn away from me,

    or I will die.  (see all Psalm 143)

Jeremiah 8:18  

My grief is beyond healing;

    my heart is broken.  (see all Jeremiah 8)

Lamentations 1:22  

"Look at all their evil deeds, LORD.

    Punish them

as you have punished me

    for all my sins.

My groans are many, and I am sick at heart."  (see all Lamentations)

 

Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.  

Psalm 140:5  

The proud have set a trap to catch me;

    they have stretched out a net;

    they have placed traps all along the way.  (see all Psalm 140)

Matthew 22:15  

Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested.  (see Matthew 21:23-22:22)

Luke 21:34-35  

    "Watch out! Don't let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware, like a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth."  

(see Luke 21:25-36)

1 Timothy 6:9  

    But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.  

(see all 1 Timothy 6)

2 Timothy 2:26  

Then they will come to their senses and escape the devil's trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.  (see all 2 Timothy 2) 

     

(parentheses are mine)

 

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