Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
Parallel translations
- WEB Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
- BSB before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.
- NKJV Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, Stir up Your strength, And come and save us!
- NASB Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, awaken Your power, And come to save us!
- NLT to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to stir up His might before the tribes and come to save them. It is an urgent appeal for God to act powerfully on behalf of His people.
Overview
Naming Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, the psalm calls God to 'stir up your might' and 'come to save us.' These tribes camped near the ark, so the plea asks God to lead them as He once did. The cry 'Come to save us' expresses the deep human need for divine rescue, ultimately fulfilled in the coming of Christ the Savior.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- Num 2:18–24On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Ps 44:23–26Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- Isa 42:13–14The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
- Isa 33:22For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
- Num 10:22–24And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
- Ps 78:38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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