English Standard Version
Psalms 69:17
17Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
Psalms 69:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t hide from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble!
Context of Psalms 69:17
15Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me. 16Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. 18Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies! 19You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.
Read all of Psalms 69Psalms 69:17 word by word
וְאַל־תַּסְתֵּ֣ר פָּ֭נֶיךָ מֵֽעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּֽי־צַר־לִ֝֗י מַהֵ֥ר עֲנֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 69:17
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 22:24For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
- Psalms 27:9Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
- Psalms 44:24Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
- Psalms 102:2Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
- Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! I have fled to you for refuge.
- Matthew 27:46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
- Matthew 26:38Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me."
- Psalms 40:13Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me!
- Psalms 70:1Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me!
- Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."
Commentaries on Psalms 69:17
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17And hide not thy face from thy servant - See the notes at Psalm 27:9. For I am in trouble - In the midst of dangers and sorrows. Literally, “there is trouble upon me.” Hear me speedily - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Make haste to hear me.” That is, Grant me without delay what I ask. The case is one of urgent necessity. I “must” have relief or I shall perish. It is not wrong to ask God to interpose at once in our behalf when we are in trouble, though it is our…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-21Verses 13-21 Whatever deep waters of affliction or temptation we sink into, whatever floods of trouble or ungodly men seem ready to overwhelm us, let us persevere in prayer to our Lord to save us. The tokens of God's favour to us are enough to keep our spirits from sinking in the deepest outward troubles. If we think well of God, and continue to do so under the greatest hardships, we need not fear but he will do well for us. And if at any time we are…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-18The psalmist can only pray for rescue and relief from his enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1816-18. These earnest terms are often used, and the address to God, as indifferent or averse, is found in Psa 3:7; 22:24; 27:9, &c.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 69
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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