Psalms 40:13 · KJV
“Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.”
— Psalms 40:13
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. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Psalms 40 — Context
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12For 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. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Cross References
Psalms 38:22
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. {to...: Heb. for my help}
Psalms 25:17-18
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: {O} bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalms 70:1-5
[To the chief Musician, {A Psalm} of David, to bring to remembrance.] {Make haste}, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD. {to help...: Heb. to my help}
Matthew 26:36-44
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
Psalms 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Psalms 71:12
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.