Psalm 142:4 {141:5}
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I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

I looked, etc.

Psalm 31:11 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 69:20 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Psalm 88:8,18 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: . . .

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Matthew 26:56 Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.

2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

refuge

1 Samuel 23:11-13,19,20 Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord said: He will come down. . . .

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

failed me.

Context
I Lift My Voice to the LORD
3When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. 4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.5I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.…
Cross References
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Psalm 31:11
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 69:20
In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Psalm 88:18
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Isaiah 51:18
There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.

Jeremiah 25:35
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill: and my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them.

Lexicon
Look
הַבֵּ֤יט (hab·bêṭ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

to my right
יָמִ֨ין ׀ (yā·mîn)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3225: The right hand, side, the south

and see,
וּרְאֵה֮ (ū·rə·’êh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

no one
וְאֵֽין־ (wə·’ên-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

attends to me;
מַ֫כִּ֥יר (mak·kîr)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5234: To regard, recognize

there is no
אָבַ֣ד (’ā·ḇaḏ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

refuge
מָנ֣וֹס (mā·nō·ws)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4498: Flight, place of escape or refuge

for me,
מִמֶּ֑נִּי (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

no one
אֵ֖ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

cares
דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ (dō·w·rêš)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship

for my soul.
לְנַפְשִֽׁי׃ (lə·nap̄·šî)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion


Additional Translations
Look to my right and see, no one attends to me; there is no refuge for me, no one cares for my soul.I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul.

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Look on my right hand, and see; for there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Looking on the right hand -- and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.
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