Psalm 142:4

Good News Translation

When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.

Cross References

Job 11:20

But the wicked will look around in despair and find that there is no way to escape. Their one hope is that death will come.

Psalm 1:6

The righteous are guided and protected by the Lord, but the evil are on the way to their doom.

Psalm 140:6

I say to the Lord, “You are my God.” Hear my cry for help, Lord!

Psalm 141:9

Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.

Psalm 143:4

So I am ready to give up; I am in deep despair.

Psalm 31:11

All my enemies, and especially my neighbors, treat me with contempt. Those who know me are afraid of me; when they see me in the street, they run away.

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.

Psalm 88:18

You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.

Psalm 88:8

You have caused my friends to abandon me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am closed in and cannot escape;

Jeremiah 18:22

Send a mob to plunder their homes without warning; make them cry out in terror. They have dug a pit for me to fall in and have set traps to catch me.

Jeremiah 25:35

There will be no way for you to escape.

Jeremiah 30:17

I will make you well again; I will heal your wounds, though your enemies say, ‘Zion is an outcast; no one cares about her.’ I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship worthless idols have abandoned their loyalty to you.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.” Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

2 Timothy 4:16

No one stood by me the first time I defended myself; all deserted me. May God not count it against them!

1 Samuel 27:1

David said to himself, “One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is to escape to Philistia. Then Saul will give up looking for me in Israel, and I will be safe.”