Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
Parallel translations
- WEB Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
- KJV Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy 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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Quick answer
David cries for God to arise, confront the wicked, and deliver his soul. It matters because deliverance from evil ultimately depends on God's active intervention.
Overview
David urges Yahweh to rise up, face down his enemy, and rescue him by his sword. He casts the burden of judgment and deliverance entirely on God. This plea for God to act against evil is answered decisively at the cross and in Christ's final triumph over all wickedness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
- Ps 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Ps 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
- Ps 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
- Ps 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
- Ps 7:11–13God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Isa 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- Isa 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Ps 119:126It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
- Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
- Isa 37:26Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- Isa 13:5They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.
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