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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.
Psalms 138:7 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
  • KJV Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
  • BSB If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.
  • NASB ¶Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will reach out with Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.
  • NLT Though I am surrounded by troubles, you will protect me from the anger of my enemies. You reach out your hand, and the power of your right hand saves me.

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Quick answer

Even amid trouble God revives David and saves him from his enemies' wrath.

Overview

David expresses confidence that God will preserve him in the midst of danger and stretch out His hand against his foes. His trust rests not in his own strength but in God's saving right hand. This deliverance in trouble foreshadows the salvation Christ secures, who brings His people safely through every trial.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 30

  • Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
  • Ps 23:3–4He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
  • Ps 71:20–21You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 85:6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
  • Acts 2:33Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
  • Isa 5:25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
  • Mic 7:8–10Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
  • Ps 144:1–2By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:
  • Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
  • Isa 10:4They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Job 19:25–26But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 119:49–50Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
  • Ps 66:10–12For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
  • Ps 44:5–7Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
  • Ps 17:7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
  • Ps 60:5So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
  • Jer 51:25“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
  • Ps 18:35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
  • Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
  • Ps 64:7–8But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
  • Ps 35:1–3By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
  • Ps 41:7–8All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
  • Ps 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
  • Ps 20:6Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
  • Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
  • Ps 56:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
  • Isa 9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 9:12The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

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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 138:7 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.

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