Psalms 73:21
19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
20 Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
23 Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
- KJV
- Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- WEB
- For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
- ASV
- For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
- DARBY
- When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,
- BLB
- For my heart had grown sour, and my kidneys pierce themselves.
- ÅB
- Når mitt hjerte var bittert, og det stakk meg i mine nyrer,
- OTB
- Da mitt hjerte var bedrøvet
Og min ånd var bitter, - B1930
- Når mitt hjerte var bittert, og det stakk mig i mine nyrer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 73:3
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Read in contextPsalms 37:7
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
Read in contextLamentations 3:13
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
Read in contextJob 16:13
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
Read in contextPsalms 37:1
Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
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