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Psalms 69:29
29May they be wiped out of the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.
Psalms 69:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
- New International Version (NIV)But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
- New King James Version (NKJV)But I am poor and sorrowful; Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Context of Psalms 69:29
27For they persecute the one You have smitten, so they tell of the pain of those You have wounded. 28Add guilt to their guilt—may they not come into Your righteousness. May they be wiped out of the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous. 30But I—I am afflicted and in pain. Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 31I will praise God’s Name with a song, and magnify Him with praise.
Read all of Psalms 69Psalms 69:29 word by word
וַ֭אֲנִי עָנִ֣י וְכוֹאֵ֑ב יְשׁוּעָתְךָ֖ אֱלֹהִ֣ים תְּשַׂגְּבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 69:29
- Psalms 40:17Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let those who love Your salvation continually say: “Adonai be magnified!”
- Psalms 109:22For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
- Isaiah 53:2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, nor beauty that we should desire Him.
- Matthew 8:20Yeshua tells him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah—that even though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
- Psalms 18:48God—He gives me vengeance and subdues peoples under me.
- Psalms 22:27Let the poor eat and be satisfied. Let them who seek after Him praise Adonai. May your hearts live forever!
- Psalms 89:26I will also set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.
- Psalms 91:14“Because he has devoted his love to Me, I will deliver him. I will set him securely on high, because he knows My Name.
- Ephesians 1:21He is far above any ruler, authority, power, leader, and every name that is named—not only in the olam ha-zeh but also in the olam ha-ba .
- Philippians 2:9For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,
Commentaries on Psalms 69:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29I am poor and sorrowful - Literally, I an laid low, and full of pain or grief. Hence the prayer, "Let thy salvation, O God set me on high!" My oppression has laid me low; thy salvation shall make me high!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29But I am poor and sorrowful - I am afflicted and suffering. The word here rendered “poor” often means “afflicted.” Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - Let thy help raise me up from my low condition, and exalt me to a place of safety.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-29Verses 22-29 These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses #(22-23), are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Ro 11:9, 10. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their punishment was, that they…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-33The psalmist prays that his pain will turn to praise.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. poor and sorrowful--the afflicted pious, often denoted by such terms (compare Psa 10:17; 12:5). set me ... high--out of danger.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 69
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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