Psalms 40:17

Though poor and needy, David trusts the Lord as his help and deliverer and pleads, 'Don't delay.' Weakness becomes the ground of dependence on God.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
• Heb 13:6So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
• Isa 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• 1 Pet 5:7casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
• Ps 54:4Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
• Ps 86:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
• Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
• Ps 143:7–8Hurry 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.
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• Isa 50:7–9For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
• Ps 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• Matt 8:20Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
• Ps 109:22for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

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