All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
Parallel translations
- WEB All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
- KJV All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- NKJV All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
- NASB All Your commandments are faithful; They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!
- NLT All your commands are trustworthy. Protect me from those who hunt me down without cause.
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Quick answer
All God's commandments are faithful, yet the psalmist is persecuted with lies, so he cries, 'Help me!' He appeals to God's trustworthiness against human treachery.
Overview
The psalmist contrasts the perfect faithfulness of God's commandments with the deceitful persecution he suffers. His urgent plea for help rests on the reliability of the word that the wicked violate. This simple cry models dependence on God amid slander, anticipating the believer's confidence that the faithful God will help those who trust His true word (Ps. 121:1-2; 2 Tim. 2:13).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 70:5But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
- Ps 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
- Ps 109:26Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
- Ps 119:78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Ps 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 119:151You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Ps 119:138The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.
- Rom 7:12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- Jer 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
- Ps 59:3–4See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
- Ps 7:1–5A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
- Ps 142:4–6Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Ps 38:19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
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