Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your 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.

A Conservative Version

But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up 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 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 Your 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 delivers me from my enemies; yea, You lift me up above those who rise up against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.

Psalm 20:1

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. May Jehovah hear you in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob set you on high,

Psalm 22:27-31

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.

Psalm 40:17

But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.

Psalm 59:1

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 70:5

But I am poor and needy; make haste to me, O God; You are my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, wait no longer!

Psalm 89:26-27

He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Psalm 91:14-16

Because He has set His love on 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 shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.

Isaiah 53:2-3

For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him, nor an appearance that we should desire Him.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.

Ephesians 1:21-22

far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above every name,

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