All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; 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.
- BSB All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—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).
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Cross-references · 17
- Ps 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
- Ps 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
- Ps 109:26Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- Ps 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 119:151You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Ps 119:138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Ps 59:3–4For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Ps 7:1–5A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
- Ps 142:4–6Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
- Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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