Psalm 142:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

I looked, etc

Refuge

1 Samuel 23:11

1 Samuel 27:1

General references

Lamentations 3:55

Bible References

I looked, etc

I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.

At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

Refuge

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down as thy servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And LORD said, He will come down.

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the bor

General references

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.