Psalm 56:3
New International Version
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

New Living Translation
But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

English Standard Version
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Berean Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

King James Bible
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

New King James Version
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.

New American Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You.

NASB 1995
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You.

NASB 1977
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in Thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I will trust in You.

Amplified Bible
When I am afraid, I will put my trust and faith in You.

Christian Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I will trust in you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I will trust in You.

American Standard Version
What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the daytime I will not be afraid, because it is upon you I trust.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They shall be afraid, but I will trust in thee.

Contemporary English Version
but even when I am afraid, I keep on trusting you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee.

English Revised Version
What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even when I am afraid, I still trust you.

Good News Translation
When I am afraid, O LORD Almighty, I put my trust in you.

International Standard Version
On days when I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the day that I am afraid, I will put my trust in Thee.

Literal Standard Version
[In] the day I am afraid I am confident toward You.

Majority Standard Bible
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

New American Bible
when I am afraid, in you I place my trust.

NET Bible
When I am afraid, I trust in you.

New Revised Standard Version
when I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

New Heart English Bible
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

World English Bible
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Young's Literal Translation
The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Be Merciful to Me, O God
2My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me. 3When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. 4In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?…

Cross References
Psalm 11:1
In the LORD I take refuge. So how can you say to me, "Flee to your mountain like a bird!

Psalm 55:4
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.

Psalm 55:5
Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.


Treasury of Scripture

What time I am afraid, I will trust in you.

Psalm 34:4
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 55:4,5
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me…

1 Samuel 21:10,12
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath…

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Psalm 56
1. David, praying to God in confidence of his word, complains of his enemies,
9. He professes his confidence in God's word, and promises to praise him














(3) What time.--Heb., yom, apparently with same meaning as beyom in Psalm 56:10, "in the day."

I am afraid . . .--No doubt the right reading: is, "I cry."

Verse 3. - What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee; literally, the day when I am afraid. When the day comes that I feel fear stealing over me, by an act of will I (even I, weak as I am) will put my trust in thee (comp. Psalm 7:1; Psalm 11:1; Psalm 18:2, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
י֥וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

I am afraid,
אִירָ֑א (’î·rā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

I
אֲ֝נִ֗י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will trust
אֶבְטָֽח׃ (’eḇ·ṭāḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 982: To trust, be confident, sure

in You.
אֵלֶ֥יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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