Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”
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Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”
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Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
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(30-11) Hear, O LORD, and be gracious unto me; LORD, be Thou my helper.'
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Psalms 30:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 54:4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
- Psalms 143:1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Psalms 143:7-9 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit. Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Psalms 28:7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
- Psalms 27:7 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
- Psalms 51:1-2 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 10. Hear, O Jehovah! In this clause the Psalmist…
10. Hear, O Jehovah! In this clause the Psalmist softens and corrects his former complaint; for it would have been absurd to expostulate with God like one who despaired of safety, and to leave off in this fretful temper. Having asked, therefore, with tears, what profit God would derive from his death, he encourages himself to a more unconstrained manner of prayer, and, conceiving new hope, calls upon God for mercy and help. He puts God’s favor, however, in the first place, from whom alone he could expect the help which he implored.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon…
Psa 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Ver. 10. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me] When Faith had once said to God what it hath to say, it will wait for a good answer, relying on his mercy, and expecting relief from the Lord, as here David doth; looking, in the mean while, through the anger of his corrections, to the sweetness of his loving countenance; as by a rainbow we see the beautiful image of the sun’s light in the midst of a dark and waterish cloud.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me,.... By…
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me,.... By lifting up the light of his countenance again upon him; by manifesting and applying his pardoning grace to him, and by delivering him out of all his afflictions;
Lord, be thou my helper; in this time of trouble; for he knew that vain was the help of man; and he was entirely in the right to betake himself to the Lord, who was able to help him, when none else could.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me, -…
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me, - etc. This, too, is the prayer which he uttered in the calamities adverted to in Psa 30:7. It is a cry for mercy founded on the idea referred to in Psa 30:9.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord,…
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my Helper. (comp. Psa_54:4 Heb_13:6) Here the psalmist"s prayer, uttered in his distress, ends, and he proceeds to declare the result.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 10. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon…
Ver. 10. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. A short and comprehensive petition, available at all seasons, let us use it full often. It is the publican's prayer; be it ours. If God hears prayer, it is a great act of mercy; our petitions do not merit a reply. Lord, be thou my helper. Another compact, expressive, ever fitting prayer. It is suitable to hundreds of the cases of the Lord's people; it is well becoming in the minister when he is going to preach, to the sufferer upon the bed of pain, to the toiler in the field of service, to the believer under temptation, to the man of God under adversity; when God helps, difficulties vanish. He is the help of his people, a very present help in trouble. The two brief petitions of this verse are commended as ejaculations to believers full of business, denied to those longer seasons of devotion which are the rare privilege of those whose days are spent in retirement.
Ver. 10. Two gems of prayer; short, but full and needful.
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Ver. 10. Lord, be thou my helper. I see many fall; I shall fall too except thou hold me up. I am weak; I am exposed to temptation. My heart is deceitful. My enemies are strong. I cannot trust in man; I dare not trust in myself. The grace I have received will not keep me without thee. Lord, be thou my helper. In every duty; in every conflict; in every trial; in every effort to promote the Lord's cause; in every season of prosperity; in every hour we live, this short and inspired prayer is suitable. May it flow from our hearts, be often on our lips, and be answered in our experience. For if the Lord help us, there is no duty which we cannot perform; there is no foe which we cannot overcome; there is no difficulty which we cannot surmount. James Smith's Daily Remembrancer.
Psalms 30:11*
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