Psalms 142:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 31:11 : 11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has 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 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 88:18 : 18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
  • Jer 25:35 : 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks 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 defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. I pray that it may not be held against them.
  • 1 Sam 23:11-13 : 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. And the LORD said, He will come down. 12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver you up. 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; and he refrained from going forth.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, 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 your 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 quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will 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 has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body. 18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. 19 All my close friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved have turned against me.

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