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Psa 143:7 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Hear me		Psa 13:1-4; Psa 40:13,17; Psa 70:5; Psa 71:12
my spirit		Psa 40:12; Psa 69:3; Isa 57:16; Luk 21:26
hide not		Psa 22:24; Psa 27:9; Psa 69:17; Isa 8:17
lest I be like, etc.		or, for I am become like, etc.
unto them		Psa 28:1; Psa 88:4-6,10,11; Isa 38:18

Correlating Passages

Hear me

	Psa 13:1	[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
	Psa 13:2	How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
	Psa 13:3	Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
	Psa 13:4	Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
	Psa 40:13	Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
	Psa 40:17	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.
	Psa 70:5	But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
	Psa 71:12	O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

my spirit

	Psa 40:12	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.
	Psa 69:3	I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
	Isa 57:16	For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.
	Luk 21:26	Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

hide not

	Psa 22:24	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.
	Psa 27:9	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.
	Psa 69:17	And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
	Isa 8:17	And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

unto them

	Psa 28:1	[[[A Psalm] of David.]] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
	Psa 88:4	I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
	Psa 88:5	Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
	Psa 88:6	Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
	Psa 88:10	Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
	Psa 88:11	Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
	Isa 38:18	For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 143:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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