Psalms 142:6
Attend to my piercing cry, for very weak am I. Save me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.
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In Context
5So I cry to you, O Lord: I say, “My refuge are you, all I have in the land of the living.”
Cross References
Psalms 17:1Listen, O Lord, to my innocence; attend to my piercing cry. Give heed to my prayer out of lips unfeigned.
Psalms 27:13Firm is the faith I cherish, that I, in the land of the living, will yet see the goodness of God.
Psalms 44:24Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
Psalms 57:3He will send me his succour from heaven, he will thrust away those who would trample me. Selah
Psalms 79:8Do not remember against us our ancestors’ sins; O meet us soon with your pity, for utterly weak are we.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 142:5-7
Complaints and Petitions. 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee, O Lord : I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. The psalmist here… Read the whole commentary →