Psalms 102:2

World English Bible (2000)

Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְ֭הוָה שִׁמְעָ֣ה תְפִלָּתִ֑י וְ֝שַׁוְעָתִ֗י אֵלֶ֥יךָ תָבֽוֹא׃

Transliteration

YHWH šimʿâ tᵉpillātî and šawʿātî to you tāḇôʾ

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *šimʿâ*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine singular - hear!
• *tᵉpillātî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my prayer
• *wᵉ*: conjunction - and
• *šawʿātî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my cry
• *ʾēleḵā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
• *tāḇôʾ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - may it come/enter

Word Meanings

• *šimʿâ*: hear/listen to
• *tᵉpillātî*: my prayer/my supplication
• *šawʿātî*: my cry/my shout for help
• *tāḇôʾ*: may come/enter/arrive

Referenced Verses

• Ps 69:17 : 17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
• Ps 27:9 : 9 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
• Ps 31:2 : 2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
• Ps 40:13 : 13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
• Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
• Job 34:29 : 29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
• Ps 13:1 : 1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
• Ps 22:19 : 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
• Ps 70:1 : 1 Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
• Ps 71:2 : 2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
• Ps 88:2-9 : 2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape. 9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you. 10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah. 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. 14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. 17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. 18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
• Ps 104:29 : 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
• Ps 143:7 : 7 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.
• Isa 8:17 : 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Isa 43:2 : 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
• Isa 65:24 : 24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
• Acts 12:5-9 : 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison. 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands. 8 The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me." 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting." 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. 15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel." 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place. 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there. 20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food. 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. 22 The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died. 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied. 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John whose surname was Mark.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.