Psalm 143:7 Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

◄ Psalm 143:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

English Standard Version
Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

New American Standard Bible
Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit fails. Don't hide Your face from me, or I will be like those going down to the Pit.

International Standard Version
Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,

American Standard Version
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Darby Bible Translation
Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Young's Literal Translation
Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.

Cross References

Psalm 27:9
Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Psalm 28:1
To 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.

Psalm 30:7
LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

Psalm 69:17
And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.

Psalm 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:

Psalm 102:2
Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear to me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Jeremiah 8:18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Lamentations 1:22
Let all their wickedness come before you; and do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

143:7-12 David prays that God would be well pleased with him, and let him know that he was so. He pleads the wretchedness of his case, if God withdrew from him. But the night of distress and discouragement shall end in a morning of consolation and praise. He prays that he might be enlightened with the knowledge of God's will; and this is the first work of the Spirit. A good man does not ask the way in which is the most pleasant walking, but what is the right way. Not only show me what thy will is, but teach me how to do it. Those who have the Lord for their God, have his Spirit for their Guide; they are led by the Spirit. He prays that he might be enlivened to do God's will. But we should especially seek the destruction of our sins, our worst enemies, that we may be devotedly God's servants.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. spirit faileth—is exhausted.