Psalms 71:2

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In your justice, rescue and deliver me;listen closely to me and save me.

Hebrew Names Version
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

King James Version
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

English Standard Version
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!

New Century Version
Because you do what is right, save and rescue me; listen to me and save me.

New English Translation
Vindicate me by rescuing me! Listen to me! Deliver me!

Amplified Bible
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me and save me.

New American Standard Bible
In Your righteousness rescue me and save me; Extend Your ear to me and help me.

World English Bible
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Rescue mee and deliuer me in thy righteousnes: incline thine eare vnto me and saue me.

Legacy Standard Bible
In Your righteousness deliver me and protect me;Incline Your ear to me and save me.

Berean Standard Bible
In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

Contemporary English Version
You do what is right, so come to my rescue. Listen to my prayer and keep me safe.

Complete Jewish Bible
In your righteousness, rescue me; and help me to escape. Turn your ear toward me, and deliver me.

Darby Translation
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Easy-to-Read Version
You always do what is right, so come and save me. Listen to me and save me.

George Lamsa Translation
Deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me; incline thine ear to me and save me.

Good News Translation
Because you are righteous, help me and rescue me. Listen to me and save me!

Lexham English Bible
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.

Literal Translation
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; bow down Your ear to me and save me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be thou my stronge holde (where vnto I maye allwaye fle) thou that hast promised to helpe me: for thou art my house of defence & my castell.

American Standard Version
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

Bible in Basic English
Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.

King James Version (1611)
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
ridde me and deliuer me in thy ryghteousnesse, incline thine eare vnto me, and saue me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me.

English Revised Version
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in thi riytwisnesse delyuere thou me, and rauysche me out. Bowe doun thin eere to me; and make me saaf.

Update Bible Version
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down your ear to me, and save me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thy ear to me, and save me.

New King James Version
Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me.

New Living Translation
Save me and rescue me, for you do what is right. Turn your ear to listen to me, and set me free.

New Life Bible
Because You are right and good, take me out of trouble. Turn Your ear to me and save me.

New Revised Standard
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In thy righteousness, wilt thou rescue me, and deliver me, Incline unto me thine ear, and save me:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(70-2) Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

Revised Standard Version
In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me!

Young's Literal Translation
In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me and save me.

Contextual Overview

¹I run for dear life to God , I'll never live to regret it. Do what you do so well: get me out of this mess and up on my feet. Put your ear to the ground and listen, give me space for salvation. Be a guest room where I can retreat; you said your door was always open! You're my salvation—my vast, granite fortress. ⁴My God, free me from the grip of Wicked, from the clutch of Bad and Bully. You keep me going when times are tough— my bedrock, God , since my childhood. I've hung on you from the day of my birth, the day you took me from the cradle; I'll never run out of praise. Many gasp in alarm when they see me, but you take me in stride. ⁸Just as each day brims with your beauty, my mouth brims with praise. But don't turn me out to pasture when I'm old or put me on the shelf when I can't pull my weight. My enemies are talking behind my back, watching for their chance to knife me. The gossip is: "God has abandoned him. Pounce on him now; no one will help him." ¹²God, don't just watch from the sidelines. Come on! Run to my side! My accusers—make them lose face. Those out to get me—make them look Like idiots, while I stretch out, reaching for you, and daily add praise to praise. I'll write the book on your righteousness, talk up your salvation the livelong day, never run out of good things to write or say. I come in the power of the Lord God , I post signs marking his right-of-way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in thy: Psalms 17:2, Psalms 31:1, Psalms 34:15, Psalms 43:1, Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:11, Daniel 9:16

cause: 1 Corinthians 10:13

incline: Psalms 10:17, Psalms 10:18, Psalms 17:6, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:20 - let Psalms 31:2 - Bow Psalms 71:16 - thy righteousness Psalms 102:2 - incline Isaiah 37:17 - Incline

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of [it]" q; :-;

and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal death; which nothing but the righteousness of God can deliver from, or cause to escape;

incline thine ear unto me; or "bow it"; :-;

and save me; out of all troubles and afflictions, and from wicked and unreasonable men.

q בצדקתך "propter justitiam tuam", Pagninus, Piscator; so Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver me in thy righteousness - See the notes at Psalms 31:1. The first three verses of this psalm seem in fact to have been taken, with slight variations, from the first three verses of Psalms 31:0.

And cause me to escape - That is, from impending dangers; from the power of my enemies.

Incline thine ear unto me - In Psalms 31:2, this is, “Bow down thine ear to me.” The idea is the same. See the notes at that place. Compare the notes at Psalms 17:6.

And save me - In Psalms 31:2, this is, “Deliver me speedily.”