Psalm 143:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Answer me speedily, O Lord, for my spirit fails; hide not Your face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit (the grave).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ Answer me, LORD—and quickly! My breath is fading. Don’t hide your face from me or I’ll be like those going down to the pit!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

Psalm 143:7 Cross References

Psalm 102:2

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call.

Psalm 22:24

For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me but heard when I cried to him.

Psalm 27:9

Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help. Do not cast me off; do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!

Psalm 28:1

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, do not refuse to hear me, for if you are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 40:17

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.

Psalm 69:17

Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.

Psalm 69:18

Draw near to me; redeem me; set me free because of my enemies.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalm 70:5

But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay!

Psalm 71:12

O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, indeed it faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank you; death cannot praise you; those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Luke 21:26

People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.