Psalm 141:8 {140:8}
Good News Translation
But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign LORD. I seek your protection; don't let me die!

New Revised Standard Version
But my eyes are turned toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenseless.

Contemporary English Version
You are my LORD and God, and I look to you for safety. Don't let me be harmed.

New American Bible
For my eyes are upon you, O LORD, my Lord; in you I take refuge; do not take away my soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

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But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

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Psalm 25:15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

Psalm 123:1,2 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. . . .

2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.

leave not my soul destitute.

Psalm 25:16,17 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor. . . .

Psalm 102:17 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Psalm 143:3,4 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: . . .

Isaiah 41:17 The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

John 14:18 I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

Context
Come Quickly to Me
7As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. 8But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.9Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.…
Cross References
Psalm 2:12
Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Psalm 11:1
Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Psalm 25:15
My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

Psalm 27:9
Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

Psalm 123:1
To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

Psalm 123:2
Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.

Psalm 141:7
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