Psalm 119:122
New International Version
Ensure your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

New Living Translation
Please guarantee a blessing for me. Don’t let the arrogant oppress me!

English Standard Version
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.

Berean Standard Bible
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

King James Bible
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

New King James Version
Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the proud oppress me.

New American Standard Bible
Be a guarantor for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NASB 1995
Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NASB 1977
Be surety for Thy servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be for Your slave a guarantee for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Amplified Bible
Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin]; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Christian Standard Bible
Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

American Standard Version
Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Delight your Servant in goodness and do not let the proud slander me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.

Contemporary English Version
Take good care of me, your servant, and don't let me be harmed by those conceited people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

English Revised Version
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Guarantee my well-being. Do not let arrogant people oppress me.

Good News Translation
Promise that you will help your servant; don't let the arrogant oppress me!

International Standard Version
Back up your servant in a positive way; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Be surety for Thy servant for good; Let not the proud oppress me.

Literal Standard Version
Make Your servant sure for good, | Do not let the proud oppress me.

Majority Standard Bible
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

New American Bible
Guarantee your servant’s welfare; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NET Bible
Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!

New Revised Standard Version
Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the godless oppress me.

New Heart English Bible
Ensure your servant's well-being. Do not let the proud oppress me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

World English Bible
Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

Young's Literal Translation
Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

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Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
121I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors. 122Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me. 123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.…

Cross References
Hebrews 7:22
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Job 17:3
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

Psalm 86:17
Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalm 119:134
Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts.

Isaiah 38:14
I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security."


Treasury of Scripture

Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

surety

Genesis 43:9
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Proverbs 22:26,27
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts…

Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Hebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

let not

Psalm 119:21
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Psalm 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














AIN.

(122) Be surety.--Just as Judah became surety for the safety of Benjamin (Genesis 43:9), so the psalmist asks God to be answerable for the servant who had been faithful to the covenant, and stand between him and the attacks of the proud. So Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:14) asks God to "undertake" for him against the threat of death. There is also, no doubt, the further thought that the Divine protection would vindicate the profession which the loyal servant makes of his obedience, as in Job 17:3, where God is summoned as the only possible guarantee of the sufferer's innocence. This and Psalm 119:132 are the only verses not actually mentioning, under one of its terms, the Law.

Verse 122. - Be surety for thy servant for good (comp. Job 17:3; Isaiah 38:14). "For good" means "so that it may be well with him." Let not the proud oppress me (comp. vers. 51, 69, 78, 85, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Ensure
עֲרֹ֣ב (‘ă·rōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security

Your servant’s
עַבְדְּךָ֣ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

well-being;
לְט֑וֹב (lə·ṭō·wḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

do not
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

let the arrogant
זֵדִֽים׃ (zê·ḏîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2086: Insolent, presumptuous

oppress me.
יַעַשְׁקֻ֥נִי (ya·‘aš·qu·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow


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