Parallel Verses
Amplified
Trouble and anguish have found me,
Yet Your commandments are my delight and my joy.
New American Standard Bible
Yet Your commandments are my
King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Holman Bible
but Your commands are my delight.
International Standard Version
Though trouble and anguish overwhelm me, your commands remain my delight.
A Conservative Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.
American Standard Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.
Bible in Basic English
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Darby Translation
Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.
Julia Smith Translation
Straits and distress found me: thy commands my delight
King James 2000
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.
Modern King James verseion
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Your Commandments are my delight.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.
NET Bible
Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.
New Heart English Bible
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
The Emphasized Bible
Straitness and distress, have befallen me, Thy commandments, are my dear delights.
Webster
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
World English Bible
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Youngs Literal Translation
Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:143
Verse Info
Context Readings
Tsade
142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Your law is truth.
Trouble and anguish have found me,
Yet Your commandments are my delight and my joy.
Your righteous testimonies are everlasting;
Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] that I may live.
Cross References
Job 23:12
“I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
I have kept the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalm 18:4-5
The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.
Psalm 88:3-18
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
Psalm 116:3
The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
Psalm 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
Psalm 119:47
For I shall delight in Your commandments,
Which I love.
Psalm 119:77
Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:107
I am greatly afflicted;
Renew and revive me [giving me life], O Lord, according to Your word.
Psalm 130:1
Mark 14:33-34
He took Peter and James and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and troubled [extremely anguished at the prospect of what was to come].
John 4:34
Jesus said to them,