And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer 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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Quick answer
David begs God not to hide his face but to answer quickly in his distress. It expresses urgent longing for God's nearness in trouble.
Overview
In his anguish David pleads that God would not withdraw his favorable presence but respond speedily. The hiding of God's face represents the felt absence of God's help, the believer's deepest fear. Christ on the cross experienced the ultimate hiding of the Father's face so that those who trust him would never be finally forsaken.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 27:9Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- Ps 102:2Hide 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.
- Matt 27:46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
- Ps 70:1MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD.
- Ps 13:1How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Ps 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- Ps 66:14Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
- Ps 40:13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
- Ps 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
- Ps 22:24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
- Matt 26:38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
- Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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