Psalms 69:29
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
In Context
28May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
30I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
Cross References
Psalms 18:48who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
Psalms 59:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.
Psalms 89:26He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Isaiah 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty 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 →