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Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Christ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 12;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, be pleased to rescue me;hurry to help me, Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
King James Version
Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me: O Lord , make haste to help me.
English Standard Version
Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me! O Lord , make haste to help me!
New Century Version
Please, Lord , save me. Hurry, Lord , to help me.
New English Translation
Please be willing, O Lord , to rescue me! O Lord , hurry and help me!
Amplified Bible
Be pleased, O LORD, to save me; O LORD, make haste to help me.
New American Standard Bible
Be pleased, LORD, to rescue me; Hurry, LORD, to help me.
World English Bible
Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let it please thee, O Lorde, to deliuer mee: make haste, O Lord, to helpe me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me;Make haste, O Yahweh, to help me.
Contemporary English Version
Please show that you care and come to my rescue. Hurry and help me!
Complete Jewish Bible
For numberless evils surround me; my iniquities engulf me — I can't even see; there are more of them than hairs on my head, so that my courage fails me.
Darby Translation
Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help.
Easy-to-Read Version
Please, Lord , rescue me! Lord , hurry and help me!
George Lamsa Translation
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, continue to help me.
Good News Translation
Save me, Lord ! Help me now!
Lexham English Bible
Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me. O Yahweh, hurry to help me.
Literal Translation
Be pleased to deliver me, O Jehovah; hasten to my help.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O LORDE, let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me, make haist (o LORDE) to helpe me. Let them be ashamed and cofounded, that seke after my soule, to destroie it: let them fall backwarde and be put to confucion, that wysh me euell.
American Standard Version
Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For innumerable evils have compassed me about, {N}they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.
King James Version (1611)
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliuer me: O Lord, make haste to helpe me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O God let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me: make haste O God to helpe me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw nigh to help me.
English Revised Version
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: make haste to help me, O LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, plese it to thee, that thou delyuere me; Lord, biholde thou to helpe me.
Update Bible Version
Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me: Hurry to help me, O Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
New King James Version
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me!
New Living Translation
Please, Lord , rescue me! Come quickly, Lord , and help me.
New Life Bible
Be pleased to save me, O Lord. Hurry, O Lord, to help me.
New Revised Standard
Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me; O Lord , make haste to help me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be pleased, O Yahweh, to rescue me, O Yahweh! to help me, make haste!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(39-14) Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. look down, O Lord, to help me.
Revised Standard Version
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!
Young's Literal Translation
Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.
THE MESSAGE
Soften up, God , and intervene; hurry and get me some help, So those who are trying to kidnap my soul will be embarrassed and lose face, So anyone who gets a kick out of making me miserable will be heckled and disgraced, So those who pray for my ruin will be booed and jeered without mercy.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me; Make haste, O Lord , to help me.

Contextual Overview

11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me. 12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me. 13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.14May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated. 15May those who say to me, "Aha, aha!" be appalled at their own shame. 16May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, "The LORD be magnified!" 17But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Be: Psalms 25:17, Psalms 25:18, Matthew 26:36-44

make: Psalms 38:22, Psalms 70:1-5

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:19 - O my Psalms 69:17 - hear me speedily Psalms 102:2 - in the day Psalms 116:4 - O Lord Psalms 141:1 - make haste Psalms 143:7 - Hear me

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."
Genesis 40:19
Within three days Pharaoh will lift your head off of you and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body."
Genesis 40:22
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted the dream to them.
2 Kings 25:27
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah's King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
Psalms 3:3
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
Jeremiah 52:31
Now on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me,.... From the innumerable evils which compassed him about; from sinful men, and from devils, signified by the sword, dog, and lion, Psalms 22:20; and from the power and dominion of death and the grave; all which was done when he was raised from the dead, and as the fruit and effect of God's well pleasedness in him, and with what he did and suffered; see

Psalms 22:8;

O Lord, make haste to help me; Psalms 22:8- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me - That is, in these troubles and sorrows. See Matthew 26:39. The prayer is that, if possible, the cup of sorrow might be taken away.

O Lord, make haste to help me - This is the same form of prayer, and referring, I suppose, to the same occasion as that which occurs in Psalms 22:19. See the notes at that verse.


 
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