Parallel Verses
Amplified
Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).
New American Standard Bible
Or I will become like
King James Version
Hear 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.
Holman Bible
my spirit fails.
Don’t hide Your face from me,
or I will be like those
going down to the Pit.
International Standard Version
Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,
A Conservative Version
Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
American Standard Version
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Darby Translation
Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Julia Smith Translation
Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.
King James 2000
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.
Modern King James verseion
Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.
NET Bible
Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
New Heart English Bible
Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, so that I do not become like those who go down into the pit.
Webster
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.
World English Bible
Hurry 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 143:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry For Help
6
I reach out my hands to You;
My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.
Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).
Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For I trust in You.
Teach me the way in which I should walk,
For I lift up my soul to You.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:17
Do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.
Psalm 27:9
Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor
O God of my salvation!
Psalm 28:1
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).
Psalm 13:1-4
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 22:24
For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.
Psalm 40:12-13
For innumerable evils have encompassed me;
My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.
Psalm 40:17
Even though I am afflicted and needy,
Still the Lord takes thought and is mindful of me.
You are my help and my rescuer.
O my God, do not delay.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
Psalm 70:5
But I am afflicted and needy;
Come quickly to me, O God!
You are my help and my rescuer;
O Lord, do not delay.
Psalm 71:12
O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, come quickly to help me!
Psalm 84:2
My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Psalm 88:4-6
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
Psalm 88:10-11
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
Psalm 102:2
Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call, answer me quickly.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look eagerly for Him.
Isaiah 38:18
“For Sheol cannot praise or thank You,
Death cannot praise You and rejoice in You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Isaiah 57:16
“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.
Luke 21:26