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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 25:21

May integrity and what is rightwatch over me,for I wait for you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Waiting;   The Topic Concordance - Preservation;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Waiting upon God;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Integrity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patience;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
King James Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
English Standard Version
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
New Century Version
My hope is in you, so may goodness and honesty guard me.
New English Translation
May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!
Amplified Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait [expectantly] for You.
New American Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
World English Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let mine vprightnes and equitie preserue me: for mine hope is in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness guard me,For I hope in You.
Berean Standard Bible
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
Contemporary English Version
I obey you with all my heart, and I trust you, knowing that you will save me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because my hope is in you.
Darby Translation
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
You are good and do what is right. I trust you to protect me.
George Lamsa Translation
The innocent and the upright have followed me because I have trusted in thee.
Good News Translation
May my goodness and honesty preserve me, because I trust in you.
Lexham English Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.
Literal Translation
Let purity and uprightness keep me, for I wait on You.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.
American Standard Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
Bible in Basic English
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.
King James Version (1611)
Let integritie and vprightnesse preserue me: for I wait on thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for thee, O Lord.
English Revised Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Innocent men and riytful cleuyden to me; for Y suffride thee.
Update Bible Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
New King James Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
New Living Translation
May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
New Life Bible
Let what is good and what is right keep me safe, because I wait for You.
New Revised Standard
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-21) The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
Revised Standard Version
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Young's Literal Translation
Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
THE MESSAGE
Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.

Contextual Overview

15My eyes are always on the Lord,for he will pull my feet out of the net. 16Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am alone and afflicted. 17The distresses of my heart increase;bring me out of my sufferings. 18Consider my affliction and trouble,and forgive all my sins. 19Consider my enemies; they are numerous,and they hate me violently. 20Guard me and rescue me;do not let me be put to shame,for I take refuge in you. 21May integrity and what is rightwatch over me,for I wait for you.22God, redeem Israel, from all its distresses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 7:8, Psalms 18:20-24, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 26:11, Psalms 41:12, 1 Samuel 24:11-13, 1 Samuel 26:23, Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 20:7, Daniel 6:22, Acts 24:16, Acts 25:10, Acts 25:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - in the integrity Psalms 27:14 - Wait Psalms 69:3 - I wait Psalms 116:6 - preserveth Psalms 119:80 - sound Proverbs 2:11 - General Proverbs 10:9 - that walketh Proverbs 13:6 - Righteousness Proverbs 14:2 - that walketh Proverbs 28:18 - walketh Isaiah 40:31 - they that Jeremiah 14:22 - wait

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Genesis 25:2
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:3
Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis 25:10
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 25:12
These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 25:16
These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their settlements and encampments: twelve leaders of their clans.
Genesis 25:19
These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.
1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives, the first named Hannah and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
1 Samuel 1:11
Making a vow, she pleaded, “Lord of Armies, if you will take notice of your servant’s affliction, remember and not forget me, and give your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,.... Meaning either his own, as in Psalms 7:8; and then the sense is, either that God would preserve him, seeing he had acted the faithful and upright part in the government of the people of Israel, and they had rebelled against him without a cause; see Psalms 78:72; or that those might be continued with him, that he might not be led aside by the corruptions of his heart, and the temptations of Satan, and by the provocations of his rebellious subjects, to act a part disagreeable to his character, as a man of integrity and uprightness; but that these remaining with him, might be a means of keeping him in the ways of God, Proverbs 13:6; or else the integrity and uprightness of God are designed, which are no other than his goodness and grace to his people, and his faithfulness in his covenant and promises, or his lovingkindness and his truth; see

Psalms 40:11;

for I wait on thee: in the use of means for deliverance and safety; the Targum is, "for I trust in thy word".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me - The word here rendered “integrity” means properly “perfection.” See it explained in the notes at Job 1:1. The language here may refer either:

(a) to God - as denoting His perfection and uprightness, and then the psalmist’s prayer would be that He, a righteous God, would keep him; or

(b) to his own integrity and uprightness of character, and then the prayer would be that that might be the means of keeping him, as the ground of his safety, under the government of a righteous God; or,

(c) which I think the more probable meaning, it may be the utterance of a prayer that God would show Himself upright and perfect in protecting one who put his trust in Him; one who was wronged and injured by his fellow-men; one who fled to God for refuge in time of persecution and trouble.

It was not exactly the divine perfections, as such, on which he relied; nor was it the integrity and purity of his own life; but it was the government of God, considered as just and equal, as bearing on himself and those who had wronged him.

For I wait on thee - That is, I depend on thee, or I rely on thee. This is a reason why he pleaded that God would preserve him. See the notes at Psalms 25:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:21. Let integrity and uprightness — I wish to have a perfect heart, and an upright life. This seems to be the meaning of these two words.


 
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