Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Parallel translations
- KJV Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- BSB Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
- NKJV Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication, To my cause, my God and my Lord.
- NASB Stir Yourself, and awake to my right And to my cause, my God and my Lord.
- NLT Wake up! Rise to my defense! Take up my case, my God and my Lord.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
- Ps 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
- Ps 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
- Ps 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
- Ps 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
- 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?
- Ps 142:5I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- John 20:28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
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