Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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).
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 spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah 7 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. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 69:17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Psalm 27:9
Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalm 28:1
Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalm 13:1-4
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:24
For 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.
Psalm 40:12-13
For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
Psalm 40:17
But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.
Psalm 71:12
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.
Psalm 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Psalm 88:4-6
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Psalm 88:10-11
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah
Psalm 102:2
Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
Luke 21:26
men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.