Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
- BSB Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
- NKJV Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.
- NASB “Give Your attention to my cry, For I have been brought very low; Rescue me from my persecutors, For they are too strong for me.
- NLT Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 79:8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
- Ps 116:6Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
- Ps 136:23Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Ps 17:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
- Ps 18:17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
- Rom 8:33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
- Ps 143:7Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
- Ps 59:3For, 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 3:1A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- 1 Sam 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
- Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
- Ps 57:3–4He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 44:24–26Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
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