Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Parallel translations
- WEB Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
- BSB Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- ESV Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- 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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Quick answer
The psalmist cries for God to arise, lift His hand, and not forget the helpless. Lament turns to urgent prayer for God to act.
Overview
Having exposed the wicked's boast that God forgets, the psalmist directly petitions God to rise in defense of the afflicted. The call to 'lift up your hand' invokes God's power against oppression. This bold prayer models bringing injustice before the God who is both able and willing to act.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Mic 5:9Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
- Ps 9:12When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
- Ps 94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
- Ps 17:7Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
- Isa 33:10Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
- Ps 9:19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
- Ps 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
- Ps 77:9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
- Isa 26:11LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
- Ps 13:1How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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