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Psalm 102:2

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you.
2Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
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The plea for God’s face and ear makes distress personal: the speaker longs to be heard, and asks for an answer without delay.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.Both speak of the day of calling on God; Psalm 56 expresses confidence, while Psalm 102 pleads for an answer.
Psalm 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!Both ask God to stop hiding his face and answer without delay because the speaker is in distress.
Psalm 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.Distress leads to prayer in both psalms; Psalm 120 recounts an answer, while Psalm 102 is still asking.
Psalm 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.Both plead with God not to hide his face, expressing the speaker’s need for his attention and help.
Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.God’s hidden face links these texts: the psalm asks him to turn toward the speaker, while Isaiah waits for him.
Acts 12:5–25Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.Prayer to God runs through both passages: one records an afflicted person’s plea, the other a congregation praying for imprisoned Peter.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the …The shared thread is trouble and help from God; Paul addresses temptation, while the psalm voices distress.
Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be …God’s presence amid trouble connects these passages: the psalm pleads for his face, while Isaiah promises his presence through danger.
Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,Both speak of God hiding his face; the psalm seeks his attention, while Job’s passage describes his authority over nations and individuals.
Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”Both speakers plead with God for a response; Job asks for pardon, while the psalm asks to be heard.
Isaiah 65:24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.Calling, hearing, and answering connect these texts: the psalm asks for a swift response, while Isaiah promises an answer before the call.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. illness or diagnosis. waiting.

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Encouragement

Urgency has a place in prayer to God. This afflicted speaker asks for an answer without delay, even while the distress remains unresolved in these words.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).