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Psalm 142

Psa. 142:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I γlooked
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
d on my right hand
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
, and beheld
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
, but there was no man that would know
nakar (Hebrew #5234)
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
KJV usage: acknowledge, X could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Pronounce: naw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
me: refuge
manowc (Hebrew #4498)
a retreat (literally or figuratively); abstractly, a fleeing
KJV usage: X apace, escape, way to flee, flight, refuge.
Pronounce: maw-noce'
Origin: from 5127
ζfailed
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
me; no man ηcared
darash (Hebrew #1875)
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
KJV usage: ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
Pronounce: daw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
for my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Psa. 69:20• 20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. (Psa. 69:20)
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or, look on the right hand and see.
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perished from me.
η
sought after.

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Ministry on This Verse

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I looked, etc.
or, Look on the right hand and see.
butthere was.
Psa. 31:11• 11More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me. (Psa. 31:11)
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Psa. 69:20• 20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. (Psa. 69:20)
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Psa. 88:8,18• 8Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
 18Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness. (Psa. 88:8,18)
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Job 19:13‑19• 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
 15The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
 16I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
 17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.
 18Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. (Job 19:13‑19)
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Matt. 26:56• 56But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. (Matt. 26:56)
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2 Tim. 4:16• 16At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them. (2 Tim. 4:16)
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1 Sam. 23:11‑13,19‑20• 11Will the citizens of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? Jehovah, God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.
 12And David said, Will the citizens of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They will deliver thee up.
 13Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he forbore to go forth.
 19And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?
 20And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand. (1 Sam. 23:11‑13,19‑20)
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1 Sam. 27:1• 1And 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 speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. (1 Sam. 27:1)
failed me.
no man cared for my soul.
Heb. perished from me;no man sought after my soul.
• Israel will have no nation or power to turn to for help (vs. 4) for all nations excepting those under Gog will have been subdued by this time. (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)
• There is no man that “knoweth” him, but the Lord knows. Every earthly refuge fails him, and no one cares for his soul. (“Psalms 142” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refugea hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

JND Translation Notes

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"A place of escape," as Ps. 59.16; Amos 2.14.