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Psalm 31:22

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
21Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.
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Notice

“Nevertheless” marks the gap between David’s hasty conclusion that he was beyond God’s sight and his testimony that God heard him cry.

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What, if anything, have you concluded in haste about whether God sees you?

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 34:4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.Both speakers look back on turning to God in distress and testify that he heard or answered them.
1 John 5:14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.Both speak of God hearing petitions; John describes confidence in asking according to God’s will.
Jonah 2:4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’Both speakers describe being excluded from God’s sight while still turning toward him.
Psalm 116:11I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”Both use the words “I said in my haste” to introduce a sweeping claim made in distress.
Luke 11:10For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.Both connect asking with a response: David testifies that God heard, while Jesus speaks of those who ask receiving.
Hebrews 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been …Both describe petitions offered with crying and affirm that the one praying was heard.
Psalm 6:9The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.Both speakers affirm that the LORD has heard their prayer, using the language of personal testimony.
Jonah 2:7–9“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.Both describe prayer reaching God from a place of distress, despite the speaker’s sense of failing or separation.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely …Both record people describing themselves as cut off; Ezekiel identifies the speakers as the whole house of Israel.
Job 35:14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!Both concern distress over sight and God’s presence: David feels beyond God’s eyes, while Job is described as unable to see him.
Psalm 88:16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.Both use being cut off to describe distress before God; Psalm 88 attributes that distress to God’s terrors.
1 Samuel 23:26Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his …Both portray David under distress, though Samuel names Saul’s pursuit and the psalm does not identify the event.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. anxiety or panic. answered prayer.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 31:22 aloud before naming one fear to God

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Encouragement

Feeling cut off need not keep you from crying to God. David’s prayer came from within that distress, and God heard him even when his own words declared him abandoned.

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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).