Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- BSB In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear 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 31:1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
- Ps 17:6I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- Ps 143:11Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
- Ps 17:2Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
- Ps 10:17–18LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
- Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
- Ps 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- 1 Cor 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
- Ps 143:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
- Dan 9:16O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about 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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