Psalm 142:2
New International Version
I pour out before him my complaint; before him I tell my trouble.

New Living Translation
I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.

English Standard Version
I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.

Berean Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

King James Bible
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

New King James Version
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.

New American Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

NASB 1995
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

NASB 1977
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my distress before Him.

Amplified Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

Christian Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before him; I reveal my trouble to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

American Standard Version
I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I poured before him my supplication and have shown before him my affliction.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.

Contemporary English Version
I tell you all my worries and my troubles,

Douay-Rheims Bible
In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

English Revised Version
I pour out my complaint before him; I shew before him my trouble.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I pour out my complaints in his presence and tell him my troubles.

Good News Translation
I bring him all my complaints; I tell him all my troubles.

International Standard Version
I pour out my complaint to him, telling him all of my troubles.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I pour out my complaint before Him, I declare before Him my trouble;

Literal Standard Version
I pour forth my meditation before Him, | I declare my distress before Him.

Majority Standard Bible
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

New American Bible
Before him I pour out my complaint, tell of my distress in front of him.

NET Bible
I pour out my lament before him; I tell him about my troubles.

New Revised Standard Version
I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.

New Heart English Bible
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Webster's Bible Translation
I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

World English Bible
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Young's Literal Translation
I pour forth before Him my meditation, My distress before Him I declare.

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Context
I Lift My Voice to the LORD
1A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy. 2I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him. 3Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.…

Cross References
Psalm 55:2
Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

Psalm 77:2
In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 77:3
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalm 102:1
Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.


Treasury of Scripture

I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

poured out

Psalm 42:4
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Psalm 102:1
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

I shewed

Psalm 18:4-6
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid…

Philippians 4:6,7
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God…

Hebrews 5:7
Who 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;

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Psalm 142
1. David shows that in his trouble all his comfort was in prayer unto God














(2) I poured out.--See the same verb used in similar sense, Psalm 42:4; Psalm 62:8; and with the second clause comp. Psalm 107:6.

Verse 2. - I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble (comp. Psalm 140, 141, and 143.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I pour out
אֶשְׁפֹּ֣ךְ (’eš·pōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out

my complaint
שִׂיחִ֑י (śî·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7879: A contemplation, an utterance

before Him;
לְפָנָ֣יו (lə·p̄ā·nāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

I reveal
אַגִּֽיד׃ (’ag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

my trouble
צָ֝רָתִ֗י (ṣā·rā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

to Him.
לְפָנָ֥יו (lə·p̄ā·nāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face


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