Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
- KJV Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
- NKJV Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answer me speedily.
- NASB Do not hide Your face from me on the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; On the day when I call answer me quickly.
- NLT Don’t turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly when I call to you.
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Quick answer
He begs God not to hide His face but to answer quickly in his distress. He longs for God's nearness in his trouble.
Overview
The psalmist fears God's seeming absence and pleads for a swift response in his day of distress. The 'hiding of the face' expresses the felt loss of God's favor in suffering. Such honest prayer reflects faith reaching for God even when He seems distant, an experience Jesus knew in His own suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 69:17Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
- Ps 27:9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- Ps 70:1For the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
- Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- Ps 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
- Ps 88:2–18May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
- Ps 71:2In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- Acts 12:5–25So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
- Ps 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Ps 22:19But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
- Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- Ps 40:13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
- Ps 31:2Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Isa 65:24Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Ps 13:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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