Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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. Jump to Previous Arrogant Crushed Ensure Godless Good Interests Keeping Oppress Pride Proud Servant Servant's Sure Surety Well-BeingJump to Next Arrogant Crushed Ensure Godless Good Interests Keeping Oppress Pride Proud Servant Servant's Sure Surety Well-BeingPsalm 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 Ensureעֲרֹ֣ב (‘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 Links Psalm 119:122 NIVPsalm 119:122 NLT Psalm 119:122 ESV Psalm 119:122 NASB Psalm 119:122 KJV Psalm 119:122 BibleApps.com Psalm 119:122 Biblia Paralela Psalm 119:122 Chinese Bible Psalm 119:122 French Bible Psalm 119:122 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 119:122 Ensure your servant's well-being (Psalm Ps Psa.) |