In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- KJV Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
- NKJV Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me.
- NASB In Your righteousness rescue me and save me; Extend Your ear to me and help me.
- NLT Save me and rescue me, for you do what is right. Turn your ear to listen to me, and set me free.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to deliver and rescue him in his righteousness and to hear and save him. It appeals to God's righteous faithfulness for salvation.
Overview
The psalmist pleads for deliverance grounded in God's own righteousness, asking him to incline his ear and save. He rests his hope not on his own merit but on God's just and faithful character. This appeal to God's righteousness as the basis of salvation anticipates the gospel, where God's righteousness is revealed to save all who believe in Christ (Romans 1:16-17).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 31:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
- Ps 17:6I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.
- Ps 143:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- Ps 17:2May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
- Ps 10:17–18You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
- Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- Ps 143:1A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
- Dan 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
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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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