Psalms 102:2

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Psalms 102:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

2 Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

3 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

4 My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalms 27:9

Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Psalms 69:17

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

Psalms 88:14

Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Psalms 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalms 143:7

Answer 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.

Job 34:29

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

Psalms 71:2

In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

Psalms 88:2

May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.

Psalms 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Psalms 88:4

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalms 88:5

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Psalms 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Psalms 88:7

Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Psalms 88:8

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

Psalms 88:9

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

Psalms 88:10

Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

Psalms 88:11

Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?

Psalms 88:12

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Psalms 88:13

But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Psalms 88:15

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Psalms 88:16

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

Psalms 88:17

All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

Psalms 88:18

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

Psalms 22:19

But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

Psalms 70:1

Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!

Job 7:21

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Isaiah 65:24

Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

Acts 12:6

On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

Acts 12:7

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

Acts 12:8

“Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”

Acts 12:9

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

Acts 12:10

They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.

Acts 12:11

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

Acts 12:12

And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.

Acts 12:13

He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

Acts 12:14

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”

Acts 12:15

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

Acts 12:16

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

Acts 12:17

Peter motioned with his hand for silence, and he described how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Send word to James and to the brothers,” he said, and he left for another place.

Acts 12:18

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:19

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

Acts 12:20

Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.

Acts 12:21

On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people.

Acts 12:22

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 12:24

But the word of God continued to spread and multiply.

Acts 12:25

When Barnabas and Saul had fulfilled their mission to Jerusalem, they returned, bringing with them John, also called Mark.