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So that Your beloved may be rescued, Save with Your right hand, and answer me!
Psalms 108:6 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
  • KJV That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
  • BSB Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
  • NKJV That Your beloved may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and hear me.
  • NLT Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.

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Quick answer

David asks God to save with his right hand so that his beloved people may be delivered.

Overview

Turning to petition, David pleads for God's saving power on behalf of those God loves. The 'right hand' signifies God's mighty intervention. This cry for deliverance of God's beloved foreshadows the salvation God works through his beloved Son, by whose mighty hand his people are rescued.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • 2 Chr 32:20–22Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
  • Ps 60:5–12So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
  • Deut 33:12About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”
  • Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
  • Ps 35:1–3By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Isa 51:2–11Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
  • Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
  • Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  • Ps 54:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?” Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
  • Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
  • 1 Kgs 18:36–37At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
  • 1 Kgs 18:24You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
  • Ps 144:5–7Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
  • Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
  • Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Kgs 18:29When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
  • Exod 15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
  • 2 Sam 12:25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
  • 1 Kgs 18:26They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
  • Ps 98:1–2A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 108:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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