Psalms 69:29
I, then, am humbled and in pain, Thy salvation, O God, may it set me on high.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
In Context
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And, with the righteous, let them not be enrolled.
30I will praise the Name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving;
Cross References
Psalms 18:48Who hath delivered me from my foes,—Yea, from mine assailants, hast thou set me on high, From the man of violence, hast thou rescued me.
Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth, will remember and turn to Yahweh, Yea all the families of the nations, will bow themselves down before thee,
Psalms 59:1Rescue me from my foes, O my God, From them who lift themselves up against me, wilt thou set me on high:
Psalms 89:26He, shall cry out unto me, My Father, thou art, My GOD, and my Rock of Salvation!
Psalms 109:22For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.
Isaiah 53:2When he came up as a sapling before him. And as a root-sprout out of dry ground, He had neither beauty nor majesty,—When we beheld him, there was nothing to behold, 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 →