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
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 40:13
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalm 71:12
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

My spirit

Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Luke 21:26
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Hide not

Psalm 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psalm 27:9
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalm 69:17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Lest i be like, etc

Psalm 28:1
{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

General references

Deuteronomy 4:4
But ye that did cleave unto the 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
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

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