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Psalm 40:13

Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.

11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
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Notice

“Hurry” makes the prayer’s urgency plain: the speaker asks for God’s willing help while trouble surrounds him and his own strength has failed.

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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 38:22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.Both prayers ask the Lord to hurry with help, addressing him as the one on whom the speaker depends.
Psalm 141:1A Psalm by David. LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.Both speakers address the LORD with urgency, asking him to come or help without delay.
Psalm 22:19But don’t be far off, LORD. You are my help. Hurry to help me!Both prayers ask the LORD to hurry with help; Psalm 22 also asks him to stay near.
Psalm 70:1–5For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD.Both prayers join a plea for deliverance with an urgent request for the LORD’s help.
Matthew 26:36–44Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”Prayer is the shared thread: the psalm voices a plea, while Jesus tells his disciples he is going to pray.
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Anxiety or panic. waiting.

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Encouragement

You do not have to hide urgency when you pray. Here, a plea for God to hurry belongs within a prayer that depends on his help.

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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).