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Psalm 143

Psa. 143:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hear
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
me speedily
maher (Hebrew #4118)
properly, hurrying; hence (adverbially) in a hurry
KJV usage: hasteth, hastily, at once, quickly, soon, speedily, suddenly.
Pronounce: mah-hare'
Origin: from 4116
, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
: my spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
faileth
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
: hide
cathar (Hebrew #5641)
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.
Pronounce: saw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
not thy face
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
from me, πlest I be like
mashal (Hebrew #4911)
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
KJV usage: be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
Pronounce: maw-shal'
Origin: denominative from 4912
unto them that go down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
into the pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
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or, for I am become,
Psa. 88:4• 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: (Psa. 88:4)
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Ministry on This Verse

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Hear me.
Psa. 13:1‑4• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
 3Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
 4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! lest mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved. (Psa. 13:1‑4)
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Psa. 40:13,17• 13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help.
 17But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay. (Psa. 40:13,17)
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Psa. 70:5• 5But I am afflicted and needy: make haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer: O Jehovah, make no delay. (Psa. 70:5)
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Psa. 71:12• 12O God, be not far from me; my God, hasten to my help. (Psa. 71:12)
my spirit.
Psa. 40:12• 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. (Psa. 40:12)
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Psa. 69:3• 3I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. (Psa. 69:3)
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Isa. 57:16• 16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made. (Isa. 57:16)
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Luke 21:26• 26men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Luke 21:26)
hide not.
Psa. 22:24• 24For 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. 22:24)
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Psa. 27:9• 9Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. (Psa. 27:9)
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Psa. 69:17• 17And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily. (Psa. 69:17)
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Isa. 8:17• 17And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him. (Isa. 8:17)
lest I be like, etc.
or, for I am become like, etc.
untothem.
Psa. 28:1• 1A Psalm of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 28:1)
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Psa. 88:4‑6,10‑11• 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
 5Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.
 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
 10Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.
 11Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction? (Psa. 88:4‑6,10‑11)
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Isa. 38:18• 18For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth. (Isa. 38:18)
• (vv. 7-10) The latter part of the psalm presents his prayer. (“Psalms 143” by H. Smith)
• He sincerely longs for the favor of the Lord’s face, for without the favor he is as one dead. (“Psalms 143” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.