They cried out to you and were saved. They trusted in you and were never disgraced.
Parallel translations
- WEB They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
- KJV They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
- BSB They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
- NKJV They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.
- NASB To You they cried out and they fled to safety; In You they trusted and were not disappointed.
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Quick answer
Israel's ancestors cried out, were delivered, and were never put to shame. Trusting God has historically led to rescue, not disappointment.
Overview
The psalmist reinforces the previous verse: those who cried to God and trusted him 'were not disappointed.' This stands in tension with his own present experience of unanswered prayer, intensifying the lament. Yet it expresses confidence that faith in God is never ultimately shamed, a confidence sealed by the resurrection.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Rom 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
- Rom 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
- 1 Pet 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- 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.
- Ps 71:1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
- Ps 106:44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
- Judg 10:10–16The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
- Judg 6:6Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
- Ps 25:2–3My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- Judg 4:3The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
- Ps 69:6–7Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
- Ps 99:6–7Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
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