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Green's Literal Translation

Psalms 25:21

Let purity and uprightness keep me, for I wait on You.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Waiting;   The Topic Concordance - Preservation;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Waiting upon God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Integrity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hope;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Integrity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patience;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
May integrity and what is rightwatch over me,for I wait for you.
Hebrew Names Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
King James Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
English Standard Version
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
New Century Version
My hope is in you, so may goodness and honesty guard me.
New English Translation
May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!
Amplified Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait [expectantly] for You.
New American Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
World English Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let mine vprightnes and equitie preserue me: for mine hope is in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness guard me,For I hope in You.
Berean Standard Bible
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
Contemporary English Version
I obey you with all my heart, and I trust you, knowing that you will save me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because my hope is in you.
Darby Translation
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
You are good and do what is right. I trust you to protect me.
George Lamsa Translation
The innocent and the upright have followed me because I have trusted in thee.
Good News Translation
May my goodness and honesty preserve me, because I trust in you.
Lexham English Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.
American Standard Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
Bible in Basic English
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.
King James Version (1611)
Let integritie and vprightnesse preserue me: for I wait on thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for thee, O Lord.
English Revised Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Innocent men and riytful cleuyden to me; for Y suffride thee.
Update Bible Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
New King James Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
New Living Translation
May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
New Life Bible
Let what is good and what is right keep me safe, because I wait for You.
New Revised Standard
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-21) The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
Revised Standard Version
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Young's Literal Translation
Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
THE MESSAGE
Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.

Contextual Overview

15 My eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for He shall bring my feet out of the net. 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17 The straits of my heart are enlarged; O bring me out from my straits. 18 Look on my affliction and my pain, and lift up all my sins. 19 Look on my enemies, for they are many; they hate me with violent hating. 20 Keep my soul and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have sought refuge in You. 21 Let purity and uprightness keep me, for I wait on You. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his distresses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 7:8, Psalms 18:20-24, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 26:11, Psalms 41:12, 1 Samuel 24:11-13, 1 Samuel 26:23, Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 20:7, Daniel 6:22, Acts 24:16, Acts 25:10, Acts 25:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - in the integrity Psalms 27:14 - Wait Psalms 69:3 - I wait Psalms 116:6 - preserveth Psalms 119:80 - sound Proverbs 2:11 - General Proverbs 10:9 - that walketh Proverbs 13:6 - Righteousness Proverbs 14:2 - that walketh Proverbs 28:18 - walketh Isaiah 40:31 - they that Jeremiah 14:22 - wait

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
And Sarai was barren; there was no child to her.
Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 25:2
And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:3
And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.
Genesis 25:10
the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.
Genesis 25:12
And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 25:16
These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations.
Genesis 25:19
And these were the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.
1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the second, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of Hosts, if looking You will look upon the affliction of Your handmaid, and shall remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, and shall give to Your handmaid a seed of men, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life; and a razor shall not go up on his head.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,.... Meaning either his own, as in Psalms 7:8; and then the sense is, either that God would preserve him, seeing he had acted the faithful and upright part in the government of the people of Israel, and they had rebelled against him without a cause; see Psalms 78:72; or that those might be continued with him, that he might not be led aside by the corruptions of his heart, and the temptations of Satan, and by the provocations of his rebellious subjects, to act a part disagreeable to his character, as a man of integrity and uprightness; but that these remaining with him, might be a means of keeping him in the ways of God, Proverbs 13:6; or else the integrity and uprightness of God are designed, which are no other than his goodness and grace to his people, and his faithfulness in his covenant and promises, or his lovingkindness and his truth; see

Psalms 40:11;

for I wait on thee: in the use of means for deliverance and safety; the Targum is, "for I trust in thy word".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me - The word here rendered “integrity” means properly “perfection.” See it explained in the notes at Job 1:1. The language here may refer either:

(a) to God - as denoting His perfection and uprightness, and then the psalmist’s prayer would be that He, a righteous God, would keep him; or

(b) to his own integrity and uprightness of character, and then the prayer would be that that might be the means of keeping him, as the ground of his safety, under the government of a righteous God; or,

(c) which I think the more probable meaning, it may be the utterance of a prayer that God would show Himself upright and perfect in protecting one who put his trust in Him; one who was wronged and injured by his fellow-men; one who fled to God for refuge in time of persecution and trouble.

It was not exactly the divine perfections, as such, on which he relied; nor was it the integrity and purity of his own life; but it was the government of God, considered as just and equal, as bearing on himself and those who had wronged him.

For I wait on thee - That is, I depend on thee, or I rely on thee. This is a reason why he pleaded that God would preserve him. See the notes at Psalms 25:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:21. Let integrity and uprightness — I wish to have a perfect heart, and an upright life. This seems to be the meaning of these two words.


 
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