Psalm 143:3 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

³ For th' en'my hath pursu'd my soul, my life to ground down tread: In darkness he hath made me dwell, as who have long been dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground; He hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For the enemy has pursued and persecuted my soul, he has crushed my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Common English Bible

³ The enemy is chasing me, crushing my life in the dirt, forcing me to live in the dark like those who’ve been dead forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Psalm 143:3 Cross References

Psalm 142:6

Because I am brought very low, attend unto my cry: Me from my persecutors save, who stronger are than I.

Psalm 35:4

Let them confounded be and sham'd that for my soul have sought: Who plot my hurt turn'd back be they, and to confusion brought.

Psalm 54:3

For they that strangers are to me do up against me rise; Oppressors seek my soul, and God set not before their eyes.

Psalm 7:5

Then let the foe pursue and take my soul, and my life thrust Down to the earth, and let him lay mine honour in the dust.

Psalm 7:6

Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself, for my foes raging be; And, to the judgment which thou hast commanded, wake for me.