All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
Parallel translations
- WEB All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
- BSB All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help 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: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
- Ps 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Ps 109:26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
- Ps 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- Ps 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Ps 119:151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Ps 119:138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
- Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- Ps 119:142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Ps 59:3–4For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
- Ps 7:1–5O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
- Ps 142:4–6I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
- Ps 38:19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
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