Psalm 142:5 {141:6}
Good News Translation
LORD, I cry to you for help; you, LORD, are my protector; you are all I want in this life.

New Revised Standard Version
I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Contemporary English Version
I pray to you, LORD! You are my place of safety, and you are my choice in the land of the living. Please answer my prayer. I am completely helpless.

New American Bible
I cry out to you, LORD, I say, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

thou art

Psalm 46:1,7,11 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. . . .

Psalm 62:6,7 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved. . . .

Psalm 91:2,9,10 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust. . . .

John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

my portion

Psalm 16:5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 119:57 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.

Lamentations 3:24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

in the land

Psalm 27:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 56:13 Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

Context
I Lift My Voice to the LORD
4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul. 5I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.6Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.…
Cross References
Psalm 14:6
For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.

Psalm 16:5
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 27:13
I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 91:2
He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

Psalm 91:9
Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge.

Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 142:4
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