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Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
Psalms 119:170 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
  • BSB May my plea come before You; rescue me according to Your promise.
  • NKJV Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
  • NASB Let my pleading come before You; Save me according to Your word.
  • NLT Listen to my prayer; rescue me as you promised.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 6

  • Ps 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
  • Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
  • 2 Sam 7:25Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
  • Gen 32:9–12Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
  • Ps 89:20–25I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
  • Ps 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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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 119:170 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.

Original language

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