In Your righteousness rescue me and save me; Extend Your ear to me and help 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.
- 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.
- 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 Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Ps 17:6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- Ps 116:1–2I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
- Ps 143:11Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- Ps 17:2Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
- Ps 10:17–18Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
- Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Ps 143:1A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Dan 9:16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are 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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