Psalms 31:22
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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.
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In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
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.
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.’
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,
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
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.”
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.
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’