Revive me, O Lord, for Your name’s sake! For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Parallel translations
- WEB Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- KJV Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
- BSB For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- NASB For the sake of Your name, Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
- NLT For the glory of your name, O Lord, preserve my life. Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.
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Quick answer
David asks God to revive him for His name's sake and bring him out of trouble in His righteousness. It appeals to God's glory as the ground of deliverance.
Overview
David grounds his plea for renewed life and rescue not in his worthiness but in God's name and righteousness. God acts to deliver for the sake of His own glory and faithfulness. This God-centered logic of salvation reaches its height in Christ, in whom God displays His righteousness and saves to the praise of His glory (Ephesians 1:6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Ps 31:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Ps 71:2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
- Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
- Ps 138:7Though 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.
- Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
- Hab 3:2Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Ps 91:15–16He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Ps 85:6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
- Ps 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
- Ps 119:107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
- Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
- Ps 143:1A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Ps 119:88Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED
- Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
- Ps 9:7–8But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
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