Psalm 69:29
New International Version
But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.

New Living Translation
I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.

English Standard Version
But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

Berean Standard Bible
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

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

New King James Version
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, God, set me safely on high.

NASB 1995
But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

NASB 1977
But I am afflicted and in pain; May Thy salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible
But as for me—poor and in pain — let your salvation protect me, God.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I am poor and suffering; your salvation oh, God, will help me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

Contemporary English Version
I am mistreated and in pain. Protect me, God, and keep me safe!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am suffering and in pain. Let your saving power protect me, O God.

Good News Translation
But I am in pain and despair; lift me up, O God, and save me!

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
But I am afflicted and in pain; Let Thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Literal Standard Version
And I [am] afflicted and pained, | Your salvation, O God, sets me on high.

Majority Standard Bible
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

New American Bible
But here I am miserable and in pain; let your saving help protect me, God,

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

New Revised Standard Version
But I am lowly and in pain; let your salvation, O God, protect me.

New Heart English Bible
But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

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Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
28May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous. 29But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God. 30I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.…

Cross References
Psalm 20:1
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

Psalm 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.

Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.


Treasury of Scripture

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

I am poor

Psalm 40:17
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalm 109:22,31
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me…

Isaiah 53:2,3
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him…

let thy

Psalm 18:48
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

Psalm 22:27-31
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee…

Psalm 89:26,27
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation…

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Psalm 69
1. David complains of his affliction
13. He prays for deliverance
22. He devotes his enemies to destruction
30. He praises God with thanksgiving














(29) Set me up on high.--Or, lift me up, i.e., into a secure place out of the reach of enemies.

Verse 29. - But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. The psalmist adds to his list of imprecations, by way of contrast, an invocation of blessing on himself. As his present condition is iu strong contrast with that of his ungodly enemies, as be is "poor and sorrowful," while they are prosperous and self-satisfied, so let their future conditions be. While they are depressed and disgraced, let him be "set up on high."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But I [am]
וַ֭אֲנִי (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

in pain
עָנִ֣י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

and distress;
וְכוֹאֵ֑ב (wə·ḵō·w·’êḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3510: To feel pain, to grieve, to spoil

let Your salvation
יְשׁוּעָתְךָ֖ (yə·šū·‘ā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity

protect me,
תְּשַׂגְּבֵֽנִי׃ (tə·śag·gə·ḇê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7682: To be, lofty, inaccessible, safe, strong

O God.
אֱלֹהִ֣ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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