Psalms 40:12
for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O LORD.
Cross References
Genesis 42:28And he said to his brothers, My money is restored, and, lo, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?
Psalms 22:11Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.
Psalms 61:8So I will sing praise to thy name forever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Luke 21:26fainting of men from fear, and of anticipation of the things coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 40:12-17
Encouragement in Prayer. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord : let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. 13 Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me: O Lord , make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven… Read the whole commentary →