Psalm 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Cross-references
Psalm 31:17 is a plea not to be put to shame — within the same psalm, contrasting the fear of being cut off with hope for vindication.
In Psalm 28:6, the same phrase 'heard my cry for mercy' appears, directly echoing the deliverance described here.
Psalm 34:4 shows a similar pattern of seeking the Lord and being answered, reinforcing the theme of God hearing prayer.
Psalm 88:5 uses the same language of being 'cut off' from God's care, mirroring the psalmist's initial alarm here.
Psalm 88:16 expresses feeling overwhelmed by God's wrath — similar to being cut off from God's sight, but with more despair.
Psalm 6:9 affirms that the Lord hears prayer, matching the psalmist's experience of being heard after feeling cut off.
Hebrews 5:7 describes Christ's prayers and being heard, echoing the psalmist's cry and answer — a typological fulfillment of the righteous sufferer.
Jonah 2:7-9 expands on the prayer: remembering God, being heard, and vowing thanksgiving, paralleling the psalmist's cry and deliverance.
Jonah 2:4 mirrors the exact sentiment: feeling driven from God's sight, yet with hope of restoration.
Lamentations 3:55 continues the same context: calling on God from the pit, just as the psalmist cried and was heard.
Lamentations 3:54 uses the same 'I am cut off' cry from the depths, mirroring the psalmist's despair.
Isaiah 38:12 continues Hezekiah's lament with imagery of being cut off from life, similar to the psalmist's cry here.
Lamentations 3:18 echoes the same cry of despair—'my hope from the LORD'—mirroring the psalmist's feeling of being cut off from God's sight.
Isaiah 49:14 has Zion saying the Lord has forsaken her, directly paralleling the psalmist's feeling of being cut off.
Isaiah 38:11 records Hezekiah's lament of not seeing the Lord, closely paralleling the feeling of being cut off from God's sight.
Ezekiel 37:11 records Israel's lament 'we are clean cut off,' echoing the same despair of being abandoned by God.
2 Chronicles 33:11-13 shows Manasseh in distress crying out to God and being heard, a narrative parallel to the psalmist's experience.
Job 35:14 echoes the same sense of being unseen by God, though Elihu challenges Job's complaint.
Isaiah 40:27 voices Israel's complaint that their way is hidden from God, akin to feeling cut off from his sight but less direct.