Psalm 138:7 {137:7}
Good News Translation
When I am surrounded by troubles, you keep me safe. You oppose my angry enemies and save me by your power.

New Revised Standard Version
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me against the wrath of my enemies; you stretch out your hand, and your right hand delivers me.

Contemporary English Version
I am surrounded by trouble, but you protect me against my angry enemies. With your own powerful arm you keep me safe.

New American Bible
Though I walk in the midst of dangers, you guard my life when my enemies rage. You stretch out your hand; your right hand saves me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

though I walk

Psalm 23:3,4 He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake. . . .

Psalm 41:7,8 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me. . . .

Psalm 66:10-12 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried. . . .

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 19:25,26 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. . . .

Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

thou wilt

Psalm 71:20,21 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth: . . .

Psalm 85:6 Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

Psalm 119:49,50 Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope. . . .

thou shalt stretch

Psalm 35:1-3 For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me. . . .

Psalm 56:1,2,9 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Psalm 64:7,8 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: . . .

Psalm 77:10 And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.

Psalm 144:1,2 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. . . .

Isaiah 5:25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:12,17,21 The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. . . .

Isaiah 10:4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. . . .

and thy right

Psalm 17:7 Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.

Psalm 18:35 And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

Psalm 44:3,5-7 Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out. . . .

Psalm 60:5 Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

Acts 2:33 Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this which you see and hear.

Context
I Will Give You Thanks with All My Heart
6For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off. 7If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.8The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.…
Cross References
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them.

Exodus 15:12
Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.

Ezra 9:8
And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Ezra 9:9
For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

Psalm 7:6
Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 20:6
The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

Psalm 23:4
For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Psalm 60:5
Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.

Psalm 71:20
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Psalm 124:3
Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Psalm 143:11
for thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble:

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Jeremiah 51:25
Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Ezekiel 6:14
And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Psalm 138:6
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