Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.

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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 innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.

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Cross References

Psalms 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

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

Psalms 71:12God, don’t be far 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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