Rescue me from my rebellion. Do not let fools mock me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
- KJV Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
- BSB Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
- NKJV Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
- NASB “Save me from all my wrongdoings; Do not make me an object of reproach for the foolish.
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Quick answer
David prays for deliverance from all his transgressions and from becoming a mockery to fools. He links his trouble to his sin and seeks pardon.
Overview
Recognizing sin as the deeper problem, David asks for forgiveness, not merely relief. He also desires that the foolish not scorn him in his fall. Deliverance from transgression is fully accomplished in Christ, who saves His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
- Ps 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
- Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Ps 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
- Ps 130:8He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
- Ps 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- Joel 2:19Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
- Ps 51:7–10Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Ps 65:3Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
- 2 Sam 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Ps 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
- Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- Rom 2:23–24You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
- Ps 119:39Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
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