Psalm 142:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I cried to You, O Lord; I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. American Standard Version (1901) I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living. Common English Bible I cry to you, LORD, for help. “You are my refuge,” I say. “You are all I have in the land of the living.” Catholic Public Domain Version I have called to mind the days of antiquity. I have been meditating on all your works. I have meditated on the workings of your hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands. |
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
For you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.
The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.