Psalms 69:18
16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
17 Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.
19 You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.
- KJV
- Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
- WEB
- Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
- ASV
- Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies.
- DARBY
- Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.
- BLB
- Draw near to my soul [and] redeem it; on account of my enemies, may You ransom me.
- ÅB
- Kom nær til min sjel, forløs den, frels meg for mine fienders skyld!
- OTB
- Kom nær til min sjel og forløs den;
Redd meg på grunn av mine fiender! - B1930
- Kom nær til min sjel, forløs den, frels mig for mine fienders skyld!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 111:9
He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
Read in contextPsalms 22:19
But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
Read in contextPsalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Read in contextPsalms 49:15
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
Read in contextPsalms 10:1
Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:27
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
Read in contextJoshua 7:9
When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
Read in contextJeremiah 14:8
O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
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