I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
- KJV I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
- NKJV I cry out to You; Save me, and I will keep Your testimonies.
- NASB I cried to You; save me And I shall keep Your testimonies.
- NLT I cry out to you; rescue me, that I may obey your laws.
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Quick answer
He calls on God to save him and promises to obey His statutes. Salvation and obedience are joined: rescued by God, the psalmist commits to follow Him.
Overview
The plea 'Save me!' shows the psalmist depends entirely on God's deliverance, not his own strength. His pledge to obey is not the ground of his rescue but its fitting fruit, a pattern fulfilled in the gospel where those saved by grace are freed to keep God's commands. Salvation is God's gift; obedience is the grateful response.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Ps 119:134Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts.
- Judg 10:15–16“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
- Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Titus 3:4–8But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
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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.
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