Psalms 40:13
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head : and my heart hath forsaken me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
In Context
14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me, look down, O Lord, to help me.
Cross References
Psalms 25:17The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.
Psalms 38:22Forsake me not, O Lord my God : do not thou depart from me.
Psalms 71:12O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.
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 →