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Psalm 38:15

For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.

13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.
16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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Notice

“You will answer” is spoken while pain remains and others threaten to gloat, making hope in God sound costly in the middle of distress.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 39:7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.Both prayers name the Lord himself as the one in whom the speaker hopes.
Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.Both speakers look to God with confidence that he will hear or answer them.
Psalm 17:6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.Both prayers speak to God with the same confidence: he will answer the person calling on him.
Psalm 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.Psalm 38 expects God to answer; Psalm 138 recalls a day when God answered and gave strength.
Psalm 123:1–3A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.Both prayers turn toward God: one expresses hope in his answer, and the other lifts eyes toward him in the heavens.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. chronic pain. feeling distant from God.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one unresolved hurt before the Lord

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Encouragement

The speaker still feels ready to fall after expressing hope. Your distress need not be hidden in prayer; this psalm speaks trust in God while the pain remains.

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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).