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Psalm 55

Psa. 55:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
is sore pained
chuwl (Hebrew #2342)
a primitive root; properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
KJV usage: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Pronounce: khool
Origin: or chiyl {kheel}
within
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
me: and the terrors
'eymah (Hebrew #367)
from the same as 366; fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
KJV usage: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
Pronounce: ay-maw'
Origin: or (shortened) remah {ay-maw'}
u of death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
are fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
upon me.
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Psa. 116:3• 3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. (Psa. 116:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 6:3• 3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? (Psa. 6:3)
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Psa. 69:20• 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. (Psa. 69:20)
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Psa. 88:3• 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. (Psa. 88:3)
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Psa. 102:3‑5• 3For 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.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. (Psa. 102:3‑5)
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Matt. 26:37‑38• 37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
 38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. (Matt. 26:37‑38)
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Mark 14:33‑34• 33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
 34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)
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John 12:27• 27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. (John 12:27)
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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• 8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
 9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
 10Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)
terrors.
Psa. 18:4‑5• 4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
 5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. (Psa. 18:4‑5)
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Psa. 116:3• 3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. (Psa. 116:3)
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Isa. 38:10‑13• 10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
 11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
 13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. (Isa. 38:10‑13)
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Heb. 5:7• 7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; (Heb. 5:7)
• Within, the heart of the godly man is sore distressed; without he is faced with death. (“Psalms 55” by H. Smith)
• The godly remnant are overwhelmed with discouragement (vs. 4-5). (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.