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Be My Rock of Refuge

Psalms 71:2

In 11 translations

BSB
In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
KJV
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
WEB
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
ASV
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.
LSV
You deliver me in Your righteousness, || And cause me to escape, || Incline Your ear to me, and save me.
YLT
In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.
DBY
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
DRC70:2
Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.
GNV
Rescue mee and deliuer me in thy righteousnes: incline thine eare vnto me and saue me.
JPS
Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.
LXXE70:2
In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֗ תַּצִּילֵ֥נִי וּֽתְפַלְּטֵ֑נִי הַטֵּֽה־אֵלַ֥י אָ֝זְנְךָ֗ וְהוֹשִׁיעֵֽנִי׃
LXX-Br70:2
Ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ῥῦσαί με καὶ ἐξελοῦ με, κλῖνον πρὸς μὲ τὸ οὖς σου καὶ σῶσόν με.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 31:1In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
  • Psalms 17:6I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.
  • Psalms 143:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
  • Psalms 116:1–2I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy. Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
  • Psalms 17:2May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
  • Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
  • Psalms 143:1O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
  • Psalms 10:17–18You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear, to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand…
  • Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
  • Daniel 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and…

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