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Psalms 31:22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God immediately after praising His deliverance in a besieged city, marking the transition from recounting past distress to affirming present rescue.
The words — נִגְרַזְתִּי (nig.raz.ti) = I have been cut off, and אָכֵן (a.khen) = nevertheless, capturing the shift from perceived abandonment to confirmed attention.
The thread — The psalmist’s alarm-driven declaration of isolation echoes the hyperbolic despair of Psalms 116:11, while the sudden divine hearing parallels Jesus’ petitionary cries in Hebrews 5:7 and the tension of unseen divine presence in Job 35:14.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that desperate self-assessments of abandonment are overridden by God’s actual hearing, demanding a posture of reliance rather than self-reliance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Cross-references
- Psalms 116:11 In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Hebrews 5:7 During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
- Job 35:14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
- Psalms 6:9 The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
- Psalms 88:16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Jonah 2:7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
- 1 Samuel 23:26 Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
- 1 Samuel 27:1 David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.