Psalms 143:7

Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

In Context

6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalms 28:1To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalms 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Psalms 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Psalms 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, don’t delay.

Psalms 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for 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 →

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