Let my pleading come before You; Save me according to Your word.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
- 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.
- NLT Listen to my prayer; rescue me as you promised.
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Quick answer
He asks that his plea reach God and that God deliver him according to His word. His prayer for rescue rests on God's promise.
Overview
The psalmist again asks that his supplication 'come before' God, seeking deliverance grounded 'according to your word.' He anchors his request not in his worthiness but in God's reliable promise. Such promise-based prayer finds its surest 'Yes' in Christ, in whom all God's promises are confirmed.
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.
- Ps 89:20–25I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- 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 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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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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