O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
- BSB Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
- NKJV Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
- NASB May the oppressed person not return dishonored; May the afflicted and the needy praise Your name.
- NLT Don’t let the downtrodden be humiliated again. Instead, let the poor and needy praise your name.
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Quick answer
Asaph prays that the oppressed not be turned away ashamed but that the poor and needy may praise God's name.
Overview
The psalmist's concern is that God's deliverance would lead to renewed worship. He asks that the downtrodden not be left disgraced but vindicated, so they can again praise the Lord. God delights to lift up the lowly, and this hope for the poor finds its answer in the gospel that exalts the humble.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Ezra 3:11And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
- Ps 9:18For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
- Ps 103:6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
- Ps 109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
- Isa 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
- Ps 102:19–21For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
- Jer 33:11The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
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