Psalms 142:7

David asks to be brought out of prison so he may praise God, confident the righteous will gather around him. It ends in hope of deliverance and shared thanksgiving.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 143:11Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
• Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• Ps 7:6–7Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
• Ps 13:6I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Ps 9:14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
• Ps 142:1A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
• Ps 119:17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
• Ps 116:7Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
• Ps 9:3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
• Ps 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
• Ps 34:2My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
• Ps 88:4–8I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
• Ps 22:21–27Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
• Ps 119:74Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.
• Ps 107:41–42Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

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