Psalms 143:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:17 : 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
  • Ps 27:9 : 9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Ps 40:12-13 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them. 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.
  • Ps 40:17 : 17 Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Ps 13:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me? 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me; 4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.
  • Ps 22:24 : 24 For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
  • Ps 70:5 : 5 But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
  • Ps 71:12 : 12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
  • Ps 102:2 : 2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
  • Luke 21:26 : 26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 28:1
    82%

    1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

  • Ps 69:17
    81%

    17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

  • Ps 102:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

    2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.

  • Ps 141:1
    79%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

  • Ps 143:6
    79%

    6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Ps 70:1
    78%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory.> Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.

  • Ps 143:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

    9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.

  • Ps 27:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7 O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

    8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

    9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 88:14
    78%

    14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

  • Ps 40:13
    77%

    13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

  • Ps 143:11
    77%

    11 Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

  • Ps 13:1
    77%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 130:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

    2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

  • Ps 31:2
    75%

    2 Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

  • Ps 30:3
    75%

    3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

  • Ps 38:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

    22 Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

  • Ps 88:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • Ps 38:10
    75%

    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 30:10
    75%

    10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

  • Ps 31:9
    75%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

  • Ps 22:19
    75%

    19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Ps 119:25
    75%

    25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

  • Ps 13:3
    74%

    3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

  • Job 14:13
    74%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Ps 71:12
    74%

    12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

  • Ps 39:13
    74%

    13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

  • Ps 142:6
    74%

    6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • Ps 25:16
    74%

    16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • Lam 3:56
    74%

    56 My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

  • Ps 70:5
    74%

    5 But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Ps 9:13
    74%

    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 55:1
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

  • Ps 141:8
    74%

    8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

  • Job 17:1
    74%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Ps 22:15
    73%

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Jonah 2:7
    73%

    7 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 116:4
    73%

    4 Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

  • Ps 6:4
    73%

    4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

  • Ps 142:3
    73%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Ps 88:6
    73%

    6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.