Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation!
Parallel translations
- WEB Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
- KJV Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
- BSB Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
- NKJV Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
- NLT Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior.
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Quick answer
David urgently asks God to hurry to his aid, calling Him 'my salvation.' He ends the psalm casting himself wholly on the Lord.
Overview
The closing plea sums up the psalm's movement from confession to dependent trust. David rests his deliverance entirely in God. To name the Lord 'my salvation' anticipates the fuller revelation of God as Savior in Jesus Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 40:13Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
- Ps 27:1By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Ps 141:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
- Ps 71:12God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
- Ps 70:1For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
- Ps 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
- Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
- Ps 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress — I will never be greatly shaken.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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