Psalm 142:4 {141:5}
Good News Translation
When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.

New Revised Standard Version
Look on my right hand and see— there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.

Contemporary English Version
Even if you look, you won't see anyone who cares enough to walk beside me. There is no place to hide, and no one who really cares.

New American Bible
I look to my right hand to see that there is no one willing to acknowledge me. My escape has perished; no one cares for me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

I looked, etc.

Psalm 31:11 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 69:20 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Psalm 88:8,18 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: . . .

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Matthew 26:56 Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.

2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

refuge

1 Samuel 23:11-13,19,20 Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord said: He will come down. . . .

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

failed me.

Context
I Lift My Voice to the LORD
3When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. 4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.5I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.…
Cross References
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Psalm 31:11
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 69:20
In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Psalm 88:18
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Isaiah 51:18
There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.

Jeremiah 25:35
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill: and my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them.

Psalm 142:3
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