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Psalm 69:17

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
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“Your servant” names a bond with God even as the plea about his hidden face exposes how hard his absence can feel in distress.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 143:7Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.Both prayers ask God not to hide his face and plead for an answer with urgency.
Psalm 102:2Don’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.Both link distress with the plea that God would not hide his face and would answer without delay.
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 speakers call themselves God’s servant while asking him not to hide his face.
Psalm 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.Psalm 69 asks God not to hide his face; Psalm 22 declares that he has heard the afflicted person’s cry.
Matthew 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”Both address God from distress, with Psalm 69 pleading against his hidden face and Jesus crying out about being forsaken.
Matthew 26:38Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”Both voice distress; the psalm asks God for an answer, while Jesus asks his companions to stay and watch.
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 speak to God with urgency, though Job asks for pardon while the psalm asks for an answer in distress.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. anxiety or panic. waiting.

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Encouragement

Your distress does not have to be hidden in prayer. Here, God’s servant asks for an answer with urgency, and the plea remains unresolved.

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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).