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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.

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.
Berean Standard Bible
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, 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!
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

11 Thou, O Jehovah, restrainest not Thy mercies from me, Thy kindness and Thy truth do continually keep me. 12 For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me. 13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste. 14 They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil. 15 They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, `Aha, aha.' 16 All seeking Thee rejoice and are glad in Thee, Those loving Thy salvation say continually, `Jehovah is magnified.' 17 And I [am] poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer [art] Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

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 after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
Genesis 40:19
yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hath hanged thee on a tree, and the birds have eaten thy flesh from off thee.'
Genesis 40:22
and the chief of the bakers he hath hanged, as Joseph hath interpreted to them;
2 Kings 25:27
And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,
Psalms 3:3
And Thou, O Jehovah, [art] a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.
Jeremiah 52:31
And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and fifth of the month, hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reign, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and bringeth him out from the house of restraint,

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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