Psalms 141:1
Yahweh, I call out to you; please help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
In Context
Cross References
Job 7:21If I have sinned, are you not able to forgive me for my sins— the things that I have done that are wrong? Soon I will lie in my grave; you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone.”
Psalms 28:2Listen to me when I call out for you to help me, when I pray, lifting up my hands as I face your sacred temple.
Psalms 69:17Do not ◄hide yourself from/refuse to hear► me; answer me quickly because I am in great trouble.
Psalms 70:5As for me, I am poor and needy [DOU]; so God, come quickly to help me! Yahweh, you are the one who saves and helps me, so please come quickly!
Psalms 143:1Yahweh, hear me while I pray to you! Because you are righteous and because you faithfully do what you have promised, listen to what I am pleading that you do for me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 141:1
David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; David did so, and had the comfort of it. I. He prays for God's favourable acceptance, ver. 1, 2 . II. For his powerful assistance, ver. 3, 4 . III. That others might be instrumental of good to his soul, as he hoped to be to the souls of others, ver. 5, 6 . IV. That he and his friends being now brought to the last extremity God would graciously appear for their relief and rescue,… Read the whole commentary →