Psalms 141:1
I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
BSB
ASV
Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me: Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
KJV
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
O Lord, I have cried to you, hear me. Moses was standing with the people, and Pharaoh was pursuing behind his back, and on every side there was distress for him. At that time he wept to God, and immediately God said to him: 'Why do you cry out to me?' While he was praying in silence, he was heard; yet Scripture does not record that he spoke, but only that he wept. And the blood of the martyrs always cries out to the Lord, and it is heard.
His crying denotes fervency in prayer; he prayed as one in earnest. His crying to God denotes faith and fixedness in prayer. And what did he desire as the success of his prayer?
Lord, I cry unto thee. This is my last resort: prayer never fails me. My prayer is painful and feeble, and worthy only to be called a cry; but it is a cry unto Jehovah, and this ennobles it. I have cried unto thee, I still cry to thee, and I always mean to cry to thee. To whom else could I go? What else can I do? Others trust to themselves, but I cry unto thee. The weapon of all prayer is one which the believer may always carry with him, and use in every time of need.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 70:5But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
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But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
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Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
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Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.