Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 142:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
- Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- Mark 14:33
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
- Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my f…
- Psalms 143:4
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Psalms 139:2
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
- Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- Psalms 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- Psalms 31:4
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.