Psalms 40:13

Lord, please save me! Hurry, Lord, help me!

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In The King James Version

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

In Context

12For I'm experiencing so many problems—I can't even count them! My sins have piled up so high I can't see over them. They're more than the number of hairs on my head! I feel like giving up!

14Please defeat and humiliate the people who are trying to kill me; turn back in disgrace those who want to hurt me.

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Cross References

Psalms 25:17My problems get bigger and bigger. Please save me from all I'm going through.

Psalms 38:22Hurry, come and help me, Lord my salvation.

Psalms 71:12God, please don't stay away from me. My God, hurry to help me!

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 →

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