Psalms 69:29
Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
In Context
28From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.
30Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,
Cross References
Psalms 18:48who saved me from angry foes, and set me above my assailants, safe from the violent.
Psalms 22:27All will call it to mind, to the ends of the earth, and turn to the Lord; and all tribes of the nations will bow down before you.
Psalms 59:1Save me, O God, from my enemies; secure me from my assailants.
Psalms 89:26“As for him, he will call me ‘My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.’
Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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 →