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Psalms 143:4
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Psalms 143:4
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
4Therefore is my spirit ouerwhelmed within me: my heart within me is desolate.
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Psalms 143:4
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
overwhelmed
To overcome, overpower, or bear down completely.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Forsaken, bereft, or left without help or company.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3When 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.
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Open the full verse study3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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Open the full verse study44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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Open the full verse study3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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Open the full verse study5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
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Open the full verse study27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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Open the full verse study1HEAR my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
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Open the full verse study81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
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Open the full verse study16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
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Open the full verse study2From 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.
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