Lord, don’t turn away from me when I have troubles.\par Listen to me.\par When I cry for help,\par quickly answer me.\par
Psalm 143:7 - Easy To Read Version Hurry, answer me Lord!\par I have lost my courage.\par Don’t turn away from me.\par Don’t let me die and become like\par the dead people lying in the grave.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: |
Lord, don’t turn away from me when I have troubles.\par Listen to me.\par When I cry for help,\par quickly answer me.\par
Why? Because the Lord helps poor people who have troubles.\par The Lord is not ashamed of them.\par He doesn’t hate them.\par If people call to the Lord for help,\par he will not hide from them.\par
Lord, don’t turn away from your servant.\par Help me!\par Don’t push me away!\par Don’t leave me!\par My God, you are my Savior.\par
Lord, you are my Rock, {\cf2\super [168]} \par I am calling to you for help.\par Don’t close your ears to my prayers.\par If you don’t answer my calls for help,\par then people will think I am no better\par than the dead people in the grave.\par
Master, I am only a poor, helpless man.\par Help me. Save me.\par My God, don’t be too late!\par
Don’t turn away from your servant.\par I am in trouble!\par Hurry, help me!\par
I am getting weak from calling for help.\par My throat is hurting.\par I have waited and looked for help from you\par until my eyes are hurting.\par
I am a poor, helpless man.\par God, hurry! Come and save me!\par God, only you can rescue me.\par Don’t be too late!\par
Lord, I can’t wait to enter your temple.\par I'm so excited!\par Every part of me wants to be with\par the Living God.\par
If there is no hope, then the heart is sad. If the thing you wish for happens, then you are filled with joy.
Dead people don’t sing praises to you.\par People in Sheol {\cf2\super [368]} don’t praise you.\par Dead people don’t trust you to help them.\par They go into a hole in the ground,\par \{and never speak again\}.\par
I will not continue fighting forever.\par I will not always be angry.\par If I continued to be angry,\par then man’s spirit\par —the life I gave them—\par would die in front of me.\par
People will become afraid. They will be very worried about what will happen to the world. Everything in the sky will be changed.