Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit faileth. "Hear me;" translate as the same Hebrew is translated in Psalms 143:1, 'answer me speedily' (Psalms 102:2; Psalms 69:17). "Faileth" - `is exhausted,' or "consumed by the blow of thine hand" (Psalms 39:10).
Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit - like those in the grave, who are beyond hope of relief as regards the present order of things on earth (Psalms 28:1; Psalms 88:4).