Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
Parallel translations
- KJV And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
- BSB Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
- NKJV And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
- NASB And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly.
- NLT Don’t hide from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 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 102:2Don’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.
- Matt 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Ps 70:1For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
- 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?
- Ps 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
- Ps 66:14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
- Ps 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
- 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 40:13Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
- Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
- 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.”
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