Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
New American Standard Bible
Or I will become like
King James Version
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 Bible
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.
Amplified
Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).
Darby 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.
Julia Smith Translation
Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.
King James 2000
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.
Modern King James verseion
Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.
NET Bible
Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
New Heart English Bible
Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, so that I do not become like those who go down into the pit.
Webster
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.
World English Bible
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 143:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry For Help
6 I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul [is] as a weary land for thee. Selah. 7 Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to thee.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:17
and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.
Psalm 27:9
Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalm 28:1
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalm 13:1-4
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.
Psalm 40:12-13
for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.
Psalm 40:17
But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.
Psalm 71:12
O God, be not far from me. O my God, make haste to help me.
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.
Psalm 88:4-6
I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Psalm 88:10-11
Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psalm 102:2
Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress. Incline thine ear to me. In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will {be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT)} in him.
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
Luke 21:26
fainting of men from fear, and of anticipation of the things coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.