Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- KJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- BSB May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
- ESV May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- NASB Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
- NLT May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
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Quick answer
David asks that integrity and uprightness preserve him as he waits for God. He hopes that a blameless life and patient trust will keep him.
Overview
David desires that integrity and uprightness guard him, while expressing that his ultimate hope is in waiting for God. His character and his trust go together, yet his security rests on the Lord he awaits. Such waiting faith finds its anchor in God's faithfulness, fully revealed in Christ, who preserves all who hope in him.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
- Ps 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
- Prov 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
- Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
- Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- 1 Sam 26:23Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
- Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
- 1 Sam 24:11–13Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
- Ps 18:20–24Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- Acts 25:10–11But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
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