Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
Parallel translations
- KJV Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
- BSB Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- NKJV Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
- NASB ¶Arise, Lord; God, lift up Your hand. Do not forget the humble.
- NLT Arise, O Lord! Punish the wicked, O God! Do not ignore the helpless!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Mic 5:9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
- Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
- Ps 94:2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
- Ps 17:7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- Isa 33:10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- Ps 9:19Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
- Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Ps 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
- Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
- Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
- Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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