My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
Parallel translations
- KJV O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
- BSB in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
- ESV O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.
- NKJV O my God, I trust in You; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies triumph over me.
- NASB My God, in You I trust, Do not let me be ashamed; Do not let my enemies rejoice over me.
- NLT I trust in you, my God! Do not let me be disgraced, or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.
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Quick answer
David trusts in God and prays not to be put to shame or let his enemies triumph. Faith seeks vindication from God against hostility.
Overview
David confesses his trust and asks that this confidence not end in disgrace or in the gloating of his foes. To be 'shamed' meant having one's hope in God proven empty before enemies. The plea rests on God's faithfulness to those who trust him, a faithfulness fully secured for believers in Christ, who promises that whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 26
- Rom 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Ps 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
- Ps 71:1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
- Ps 22:5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
- Rom 5:5and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
- Isa 37:35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
- 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 34:8Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
- Ps 13:2–4How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
- Isa 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
- Ps 94:3Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
- 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.”
- Ps 7:1A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
- 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.”
- Ps 37:40Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
- Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Ps 35:19–25Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Ps 22:1For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Isa 36:14–20Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
- Isa 41:16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 37:10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
- Isa 28:16Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
- Ps 56:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
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