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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 25:20

I come to you for shelter. Protect me, keep me safe, and don't disappoint me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deliverance;   The Topic Concordance - Trust;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Trust;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deliver;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Guard me and rescue me;do not let me be put to shame,for I take refuge in you.
Hebrew Names Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
King James Version
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
English Standard Version
Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
New Century Version
Protect me and save me. I trust you, so do not let me be disgraced.
New English Translation
Protect me and deliver me! Please do not let me be humiliated, for I have taken shelter in you!
Amplified Bible
Guard my soul and rescue me; Do not let me be ashamed or disappointed, For I have taken refuge in You.
New American Standard Bible
Guard my soul and save me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
World English Bible
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe my soule, and deliuer me: let me not be confounded, for I trust in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Keep my soul and deliver me;Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
Berean Standard Bible
Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.
Complete Jewish Bible
Protect me and rescue me; don't let me be disgraced, for I take refuge in you.
Darby Translation
Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I trust in thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Protect me! Save me from them! I come to you for protection, so don't let me be disappointed.
George Lamsa Translation
O keep my soul, and deliver me, because I have trusted in thee.
Good News Translation
Protect me and save me; keep me from defeat. I come to you for safety.
Lexham English Bible
Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.
Literal Translation
Keep my soul and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have sought refuge in You.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O kepe my soule, and delyuer me: let me not be confounded, for I haue put my trust in the.
American Standard Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
Bible in Basic English
O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in Thee.
King James Version (1611)
O keepe my soule and deliuer me: let me not bee ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O kepe my soule and deliuer me, lest I shalbe confounded: for I haue put my trust in thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in thee.
English Revised Version
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe thou my soule, and delyuere thou me; be Y not aschamed, for Y hopide in thee.
Update Bible Version
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Don't let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Webster's Bible Translation
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
New King James Version
Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.
New Living Translation
Protect me! Rescue my life from them! Do not let me be disgraced, for in you I take refuge.
New Life Bible
Keep me safe, Lord, and set me free. Do not let me be put to shame for I put my trust in You.
New Revised Standard
O guard my life, and deliver me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Oh keep my soul, and rescue me, Let me not be put to shame, for I have sought refuge in thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-20) Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.
Revised Standard Version
Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
Young's Literal Translation
Keep my soul, and deliver me, Let me not be ashamed, for I trusted in Thee.
THE MESSAGE
Keep watch over me and keep me out of trouble; Don't let me down when I run to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Guard my soul and deliver me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.

Contextual Overview

15 I always look to you, because you rescue me from every trap. 16 I am lonely and troubled. Show that you care and have pity on me. 17 My awful worries keep growing. Rescue me from sadness. 18 See my troubles and misery and forgive my sins. 19 Look at all my enemies! See how much they hate me. 20 I come to you for shelter. Protect me, keep me safe, and don't disappoint me. 21 I obey you with all my heart, and I trust you, knowing that you will save me. 22 Our God, please save Israel from all of its troubles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O: Psalms 17:8, Psalms 22:20, Psalms 22:21, Psalms 121:7, Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59

let: Psalms 71:1, Psalms 71:2, Joel 2:26, Joel 2:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:11 - Deliver Psalms 16:1 - for Psalms 119:31 - put me Romans 9:33 - and whosoever

Cross-References

Genesis 24:67
Isaac took Rebekah into the tent where his mother had lived before she died, and Rebekah became his wife. He loved her and was comforted over the loss of his mother.
Genesis 25:5
While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac, and when Abraham died, he left everything to Isaac.
Genesis 31:18
for the home of his father Isaac in Canaan. Jacob took all of the flocks, herds, and other property that he had gotten in northern Syria.
Genesis 31:20
Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not saying that he intended to leave.
Genesis 31:24
But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, "Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise."
Genesis 35:9
After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying: I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings.
Deuteronomy 26:5
Then, standing there in front of the place of worship, you must pray: My ancestor was homeless, an Aramean who went to live in Egypt. There were only a few in his family then, but they became great and powerful, a nation of many people.
Luke 4:27
During the time of the prophet Elisha, many men in Israel had leprosy. But no one was healed, except Naaman who lived in Syria.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O keep my soul,.... Or "life" n, which was in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held him in it, to preserve it. God is the keeper of has people in a spiritual sense; they cannot keep themselves from sin, Satan, and the world; but he is able to keep them from falling, and therefore they pray to him that he would keep them; and they have reason to believe they shall be kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation;

and deliver me; as out of the hands of his present enemies, so from all evil, from the evils of the world, from the evil one, Satan, from the evil of sin, and out of all affliction and troubles;

let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee;

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n נפשי "animam meam", i.e. "vitam meam", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O keep my soul - “My life;” or, keep “me.” The allusion is to all the perils which encompassed him, whether arising from his foes or his sins; and the prayer is, that the divine protection might be commensurate with the danger; that is, that he might not be destroyed, either by his enemies or by the sins which he had committed.

And deliver me - Save me; rescue me.

Let me not be ashamed - See Psalms 25:2.

For I put my trust in thee - This is urged as a reason why he should be delivered and saved. The idea seems to be, that the honor of God would be concerned in protecting one who fled to Him; who confided in Him; who relied on Him. Thus, when the helpless and the oppressed have so much confidence in our character and our ability as to fly to us in the time of trouble, it is a proper reason for them to ask our protection that they do confide in us. Our character becomes involved in the matter, and they may safely trust that we shall feel ourselves under obligations to act in conformity with the confidence reposed in us. It is thus that the poor and the oppressed confide in the good; thus that a sinner confides in God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:20. O keep my soul — Save me from sin, and keep me alive.

Let me not be ashamed — He ends as he began; see Psalms 25:2: "Let me not be confounded, for I put my trust in thee."


 
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