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.
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.
- BSB Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
- 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.
- 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 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
- Ps 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
- Ps 70:1For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
- Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- Ps 143:7Hurry 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.
- Ps 88:2–18Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
- Ps 71:2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Acts 12:5–25Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
- Ps 104:29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
- Ps 22:19But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
- Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
- Ps 40:13Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
- Ps 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
- Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
- Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
- Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? 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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