Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

New American Standard Bible

But I am afflicted and in pain;
May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

King James Version

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Holman Bible

But as for me—poor and in pain—
let Your salvation protect me, God.

International Standard Version

As for me, I am afflicted and hurting; may your deliverance, God, establish me on high.

American Standard Version

But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Amplified


But I am sorrowful and in pain;
May Your salvation, O God, set me [securely] on high.

Bible in Basic English

But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

Darby Translation

But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.

Julia Smith Translation

And I am poor and dejected: and thy salvation, O God, shall set me up on high.

King James 2000

But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But as for me, [though] I [am] afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.

Modern King James verseion

But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

As for me, I am poor and in heaviness; let thy help defend me, O God.

NET Bible

I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

New Heart English Bible

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

The Emphasized Bible

I, then, am humbled and in pain, Thy salvation, O God, may it set me on high.

Webster

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

World English Bible

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving,

Cross References

Psalm 18:48

He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.

Psalm 20:1

LORD answer thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high,

Psalm 22:27-31

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to LORD, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psalm 40:17

But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 70:5

But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.

Psalm 89:26-27

He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Psalm 91:14-16

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known my name.

Psalm 109:22

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 109:31

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Isaiah 53:2-3

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

Ephesians 1:21-22

far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming.

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name,

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