Psalms 69:29
(69:30) But I am poor and suffering: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
In Context
30(69:31) I will praise the name of God with song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Cross References
Psalms 18:48(18:49) That delivereth me from my enemies: also above my opponents thou liftest me up; thou deliverest me from the man of violence.
Psalms 22:27(22:28) All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord: and all the families of the nations shall bow themselves down before thee.
Psalms 59:1“To the chief musician, Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to put him to death.” (59:2) Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Psalms 89:26(89:27) He will call unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 109:22For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
Isaiah 53:2Yea, he grew up like a small shoot before him, and as a root out of a dry land: he had no form nor comeliness, so that we should look at him; and no countenance, so that we should desire him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:23-30
Pleading with God; Prophetic Imprecations. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast… Read the whole commentary →