¶But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, God, set me safely on high.
Parallel translations
- WEB But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
- KJV But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
- BSB But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
- NKJV But I am poor and sorrowful; Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
- NLT I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.
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Quick answer
In contrast to his enemies, David, in pain and distress, asks God's salvation to lift him up. It returns from judgment to humble dependence on God.
Overview
After the imprecations, David turns back to his own need, confessing his affliction and pleading for God's salvation to set him on high. He casts himself wholly on God to rescue and exalt him. This humble reliance on divine salvation rather than self foreshadows the gospel pattern, where the lowly are lifted up by the saving power of God in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 91:14–16“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
- 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 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
- Ps 109:22for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
- Ps 20:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
- Ps 18:48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- Eph 1:21–22far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
- 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Isa 53:2–3For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- Ps 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
- Ps 59:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
- Ps 22:27–31All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Ps 89:26–27He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
- Matt 8:20Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
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