Parallel Verses New International Version LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
English Standard Version But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
New American Standard Bible For I hope in You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
King James Bible For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Holman Christian Standard Bible I put my hope in You, LORD; You will answer, Lord my God.
International Standard Version Because I have placed my hope in you, LORD, you will answer, Lord, my God.
American Standard Version For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
Douay-Rheims Bible For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped : thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.
Darby Bible Translation For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
Young's Literal Translation Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.
Commentaries 38:12-22 Wicked men hate goodness, even when they benefit by it. David, in the complaints he makes of his enemies, seems to refer to Christ. But our enemies do us real mischief only when they drive us from God and our duty. The true believer's trouble will be made useful; he will learn to wait for his God, and will not seek relief from the world or himself. The less we notice the unkindness and injuries that are done us, the more we consult the quiet of our own minds. David's troubles were the chastisement and the consequence of his transgressions, whilst Christ suffered for our sins and ours only. What right can a sinner have to yield to impatience or anger, when mercifully corrected for his sins? David was very sensible of the present workings of corruption in him. Good men, by setting their sorrow continually before them, have been ready to fall; but by setting God always before them, they have kept their standing. If we are truly penitent for sin, that will make us patient under affliction. Nothing goes nearer to the heart of a believer when in affliction, than to be under the apprehension of God's deserting him; nor does any thing come more feelingly from his heart than this prayer, Be not far from me. The Lord will hasten to help those who trust in him as their salvation.
15-17. for he is confident the Lord—literally, "Sovereign" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (Ps 3:4; 4:1), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger. |
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