Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Lest i be like, etc

Bible References

Hear me

Psalm 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 40:13
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O LORD.
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.

My spirit

Psalm 40:12
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 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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.

Hide not

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 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 69:17
and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. 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.

Lest i be like, etc

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 88:4
I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

General references

Deuteronomy 4:4
But ye who clung to LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Psalm 54:2
Hear my prayer, O God. Give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.