Psalms 142:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 31:11 : 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 88:18 : 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
  • Jer 25:35 : 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
  • 1 Sam 23:11-13 : 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down. 12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up. 13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 142:5-6
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    5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

    6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

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    3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

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    2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

  • 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

  • 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • 11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

  • 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

  • 1 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A alm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

  • 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

  • 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

  • 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

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    12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Ps 54:3-4
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    3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

    4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

  • 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

  • 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

  • 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  • 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

  • 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desote.

  • 9 Hide 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.

  • 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

  • 7 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.

  • 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

  • 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

  • 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

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    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are gd that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

  • 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?