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Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
Psalms 17:13 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
  • BSB Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
  • NKJV Arise, O Lord, Confront him, cast him down; Deliver my life from the wicked with Your sword,
  • NASB ¶Arise, Lord, confront him, make him bow down; Save my soul from the wicked with Your sword,
  • NLT Arise, O Lord! Stand against them, and bring them to their knees! Rescue me from the wicked with your sword!

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 14

  • Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
  • Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 44:26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
  • Ps 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
  • Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
  • Ps 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
  • Ps 7:11–13God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
  • Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
  • Isa 10:15Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
  • Isa 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
  • Ps 119:126It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
  • Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
  • Isa 37:26Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
  • Isa 13:5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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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 17:13 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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