Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
6I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Cross References
Psalms 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psalms 28:1Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 40:17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 69:17And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms 70:5But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms 84:2My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries 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 →