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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 25:20

Keep my soul, and deliver me, Let me not be ashamed, for I trusted in Thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deliverance;   The Topic Concordance - Trust;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Trust;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deliver;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Guard me and rescue me;do not let me be put to shame,for I take refuge in you.
Hebrew Names Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
King James Version
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
English Standard Version
Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
New Century Version
Protect me and save me. I trust you, so do not let me be disgraced.
New English Translation
Protect me and deliver me! Please do not let me be humiliated, for I have taken shelter in you!
Amplified Bible
Guard my soul and rescue me; Do not let me be ashamed or disappointed, For I have taken refuge in You.
New American Standard Bible
Guard my soul and save me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
World English Bible
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe my soule, and deliuer me: let me not be confounded, for I trust in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Keep my soul and deliver me;Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
Berean Standard Bible
Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.
Contemporary English Version
I come to you for shelter. Protect me, keep me safe, and don't disappoint me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Protect me and rescue me; don't let me be disgraced, for I take refuge in you.
Darby Translation
Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I trust in thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Protect me! Save me from them! I come to you for protection, so don't let me be disappointed.
George Lamsa Translation
O keep my soul, and deliver me, because I have trusted in thee.
Good News Translation
Protect me and save me; keep me from defeat. I come to you for safety.
Lexham English Bible
Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.
Literal Translation
Keep my soul and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have sought refuge in You.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O kepe my soule, and delyuer me: let me not be confounded, for I haue put my trust in the.
American Standard Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
Bible in Basic English
O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in Thee.
King James Version (1611)
O keepe my soule and deliuer me: let me not bee ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O kepe my soule and deliuer me, lest I shalbe confounded: for I haue put my trust in thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in thee.
English Revised Version
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe thou my soule, and delyuere thou me; be Y not aschamed, for Y hopide in thee.
Update Bible Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Don't let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Webster's Bible Translation
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
New King James Version
Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.
New Living Translation
Protect me! Rescue my life from them! Do not let me be disgraced, for in you I take refuge.
New Life Bible
Keep me safe, Lord, and set me free. Do not let me be put to shame for I put my trust in You.
New Revised Standard
O guard my life, and deliver me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Oh keep my soul, and rescue me, Let me not be put to shame, for I have sought refuge in thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-20) Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.
Revised Standard Version
Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
THE MESSAGE
Keep watch over me and keep me out of trouble; Don't let me down when I run to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Guard my soul and deliver me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.

Contextual Overview

15 Mine eyes [are] continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet. 16 Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted [am] I. 17 The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out. 18 See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins. 19 See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me. 20 Keep my soul, and deliver me, Let me not be ashamed, for I trusted in Thee. 21 Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, from all his distresses!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O: Psalms 17:8, Psalms 22:20, Psalms 22:21, Psalms 121:7, Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59

let: Psalms 71:1, Psalms 71:2, Joel 2:26, Joel 2:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:11 - Deliver Psalms 16:1 - for Psalms 119:31 - put me Romans 9:33 - and whosoever

Cross-References

Genesis 22:23
and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother;
Genesis 24:67
and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after [the death of] his mother.
Genesis 25:5
And Abraham giveth all that he hath to Isaac;
Genesis 25:6
and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country.
Genesis 31:18
and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:20
and Jacob deceiveth the heart of Laban the Aramaean, because he hath not declared to him that he is fleeing;
Genesis 31:24
And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night, and saith to him, `Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil.'
Genesis 35:9
And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;
Deuteronomy 26:5
`And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;
Luke 4:27
and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but -- Naaman the Syrian.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O keep my soul,.... Or "life" n, which was in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held him in it, to preserve it. God is the keeper of has people in a spiritual sense; they cannot keep themselves from sin, Satan, and the world; but he is able to keep them from falling, and therefore they pray to him that he would keep them; and they have reason to believe they shall be kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation;

and deliver me; as out of the hands of his present enemies, so from all evil, from the evils of the world, from the evil one, Satan, from the evil of sin, and out of all affliction and troubles;

let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee;

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n נפשי "animam meam", i.e. "vitam meam", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O keep my soul - “My life;” or, keep “me.” The allusion is to all the perils which encompassed him, whether arising from his foes or his sins; and the prayer is, that the divine protection might be commensurate with the danger; that is, that he might not be destroyed, either by his enemies or by the sins which he had committed.

And deliver me - Save me; rescue me.

Let me not be ashamed - See Psalms 25:2.

For I put my trust in thee - This is urged as a reason why he should be delivered and saved. The idea seems to be, that the honor of God would be concerned in protecting one who fled to Him; who confided in Him; who relied on Him. Thus, when the helpless and the oppressed have so much confidence in our character and our ability as to fly to us in the time of trouble, it is a proper reason for them to ask our protection that they do confide in us. Our character becomes involved in the matter, and they may safely trust that we shall feel ourselves under obligations to act in conformity with the confidence reposed in us. It is thus that the poor and the oppressed confide in the good; thus that a sinner confides in God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:20. O keep my soul — Save me from sin, and keep me alive.

Let me not be ashamed — He ends as he began; see Psalms 25:2: "Let me not be confounded, for I put my trust in thee."


 
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