Psalms 143:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַ֘הֵ֤ר עֲנֵ֨נִי ׀ יְהוָה֮ כָּלְתָ֢ה ר֫וּחִ֥י אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֣ר פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְ֝נִמְשַׁ֗לְתִּי עִם־יֹ֥רְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

Mahēr 'ănēnî YHWH, kālṯāh rûḥî; 'al-tastēr pāneḵā from mimmennî and nimšaltî with yōrḏê ḇôr.

Grammar Details

*Mahēr*: piel imperative, masculine, singular - hasten/make haste
*'ănēnî*: qal imperative, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - answer me
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*kālṯāh*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - she has failed/ended
*rûḥî*: noun, feminine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - my spirit
*'al-tastēr*: negative particle + hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular, jussive - do not hide
*pāneḵā*: noun, masculine, plural, construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your face
*mimmennî*: preposition min + 1st person singular suffix - from me
*wenimšaltî*: conjunction + niphal perfect, 1st person singular - and I will be like/compared
*'im-yōrḏê*: preposition + qal participle, masculine, plural, construct - with those who go down to
*ḇôr*: noun, masculine, singular - pit

Word Meanings

*Mahēr*: hasten/hurry/quickly
*'ănēnî*: answer me/respond to me
*kālṯāh*: has failed/is spent/has ended
*rûḥî*: my spirit/my breath/my life
*'al-tastēr pāneḵā*: do not hide your face/do not turn away
*nimšaltî*: I will be like/I will be compared to/I will resemble
*yōrḏê ḇôr*: those who go down to the pit/those descending to the grave

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 69:17 : 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Ps 27:9 : 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.
Ps 28:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] 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.
Ps 40:12-13 : 12 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. 13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
Ps 40:17 : 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.
Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Ps 13:1-4 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
Ps 22:24 : 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.
Ps 70:5 : 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.
Ps 71:12 : 12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.
Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Ps 102:2 : 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.
Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isa 57:16 : 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 : 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.

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