to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!
Parallel translations
- WEB Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
- KJV Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and 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!
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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.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
- Num 2:18–24“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Ps 44:23–26Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
- Isa 42:13–14Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Num 10:22–24The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
- Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
- Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
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