Psalms 143:7
Answer me soon, Lord, because my spirit is spent. Hide not your face from me, else become I like those who go down to the pit.
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6I spread out my hands to you: I thirst for you, like parched earth. Selah
Cross References
Psalms 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the sorrow of the sorrowful. He hid not his face from me, but he listened to my cry for help.
Psalms 28:1Unto you, O Lord, do I cry; my rock, be not deaf to me: lest, through holding your peace, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Psalms 40:17I am weak and needy, yet the Lord cares for me. You are my help and deliverer; don’t delay, my God.
Psalms 69:17Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.
Psalms 70:5I am weak and needy: make haste, God, to me. You are my help and deliverer; Lord, don’t delay.
Psalms 84:2How I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord. Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 143:2-7
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate… Read the whole commentary →