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Bishop's Bible

Psalms 31:3

For thou art my strong rocke and fortresse: euen for thy name sake conduct me, and direct me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Faith;   Fort;   God Continued...;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   The Topic Concordance - Foundation;   God;   Guidance;   Strength;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rocks;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Guidance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Rock;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fortress;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fortress;   Rock;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For you are my rock and my fortress;you lead and guide mefor your name’s sake.
Hebrew Names Version
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
King James Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
English Standard Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
New Century Version
You are my rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.
New English Translation
For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.
Amplified Bible
Yes, You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.
New American Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; For the sake of Your name You will lead me and guide me.
World English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake directe mee and guide me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For You are my high rock and my fortress;For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.
Berean Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead and guide me for the sake of Your name.
Contemporary English Version
You, Lord God, are my mighty rock and my fortress. Lead me and guide me, so that your name will be honored.
Complete Jewish Bible
Turn your ear toward me, come quickly to my rescue, be for me a rock of strength, a fortress to keep me safe.
Darby Translation
For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, you are my Rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou art my strength and my refuge; therefore for thy names sake comfort me and guide me.
Good News Translation
You are my refuge and defense; guide me and lead me as you have promised.
Lexham English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.
Literal Translation
For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
be thou my stronge rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me.
American Standard Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
Bible in Basic English
For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Incline Thine ear unto me, deliver me speedily;
King James Version (1611)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therfore for thy names sake lead me, and guide me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name’s sake, and maintain me.
English Revised Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou art my strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.
Update Bible Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
New King James Version
For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me.
New Living Translation
You are my rock and my fortress. For the honor of your name, lead me out of this danger.
New Life Bible
For You are my rock and my safe place. For the honor of Your name, lead me and show me the way.
New Revised Standard
You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead me and guide me,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, my mountain crag and my stronghold, thou art, Therefore, for the sake of thine own Name, wilt thou lead me and guide me?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-4) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
Revised Standard Version
Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,
Young's Literal Translation
For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.
THE MESSAGE
You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

Contextual Overview

1 In thee O God I haue put my trust, let me neuer be confounded: deliuer me in thy righteousnes. 2 Bowe downe thine eare to me, make hast to deliuer me: be vnto me a strong rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me. 3 For thou art my strong rocke and fortresse: euen for thy name sake conduct me, and direct me. 4 Take me out of the net that they haue layde priuily for me: for thou art my strength. 5 Into thy hande I commende my spirite: [for] thou hast redeemed me O God the Lorde of trueth. 6 I haue hated them that obserue superstitious vanities: and my trust hath ben in God. 7 I wyll be glad and reioyce in thy louing kindnes: for that thou hast considered my trouble, and hast knowen my soule in aduersities. 8 Thou hast not shut me vp into the hande of the enemie: [but] hast set my feete in a large roome.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for thy: Psalms 23:2, Psalms 23:3, Psalms 25:11, Psalms 79:9, Joshua 7:9, Jeremiah 14:7, Ezekiel 36:21, Ezekiel 36:22, Ephesians 1:12

lead: Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 143:10, Psalms 143:11, Nehemiah 9:12, Nehemiah 9:19, Isaiah 49:10, Luke 1:79, John 16:13

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:2 - General Psalms 71:3 - my strong habitation Psalms 109:21 - But do Isaiah 32:2 - rock

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 26:24
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym the same night, and sayde: I am the God of Abraham thy father, feare not, for I am with thee, and wyl blesse thee and multiple thy seede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake.
Genesis 28:4
And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.
Genesis 28:13
Yea, and God from aboue leaned vpon it, and sayde: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac, the land which thou sleepest vpon, wyll I geue thee and thy seede.
Genesis 30:25
Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.
Genesis 31:2
And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.
Genesis 31:3
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kynrede, and I wyll be with thee.
Genesis 31:5
And sayde vnto them: I see your fathers countenauce that it is not toward me as it was wont to be: but the God of my father hath ben with me.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou [art] my rock and my fortress,.... What he prayed for he knew him to be, and to have been in times past, and could claim his interest in him; and therefore entreats that he would appear to be to him what he was in himself, and what he had been to him;

therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me; either as a shepherd does his flock, gently, as they are able to bear it; into the green pastures of the word and ordinances, and beside the still waters of divine love, and to the overflowing fountain, and fulness of grace in himself; or as a general leads and guides his army; Christ being a Leader and Commander of the people, and the great Captain of their salvation, and who being at the head of them, they fear no enemy; or as a guide leads and directs such as are ignorant, and out of the way. The psalmist desires the Lord would lead him in the way of truth and paths of righteousness, according to his word; and guide him with his counsel, and by his Spirit, that so he might walk in the way in which he should go; and this he entreats he would do "for [his] name's sake"; not for any merit or worthiness in him; but for the glory of his own name, and for the honour of his free grace and mercy, for which the Lord often does many things; he defers his anger, he purges away the sins of his people, he forgives their transgressions, and remembers their sins no more, for his name's sake.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou art my rock and my fortress - See the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Therefore for thy name’s sake - For the sake of thine own honor, or for the glory of thy name. See the notes at Psalms 23:3. That is, since thou art my rock and my defense - since I put my trust in thee - show, by leading and guiding me, that my trust is well founded, or that this is Thy character, and that Thou wilt be true and faithful to those who commit their all to thee. See the notes at Psalms 31:1.


 
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