Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Parallel translations
- WEB Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
- BSB Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
- NKJV Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your word.
- NASB Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your word.
- NLT Argue my case; take my side! Protect my life as you promised.
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Quick answer
He asks God to plead his cause, redeem him, and revive him according to His promise. God is both advocate and redeemer of His people.
Overview
The psalmist calls on God to take up his legal defense ('plead my cause') and to 'redeem' him, language of buying back from bondage. He grounds his hope for renewed life in God's own promise. These roles of advocate and redeemer are gathered up in Jesus Christ, who pleads for and ransoms His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 35:1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- 1 Sam 24:15The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
- Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
- Jer 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Jer 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Ps 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Prov 22:23For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
- Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- Jer 51:36Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
- 1 Jn 2:1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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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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