Psalms 69:29

Easy-to-Read Version

I am sad and hurting. God, lift me up and save me!

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.

English Revised Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Update Bible Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: Let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

New Century Version
I am sad and hurting. God, save me and protect me.

New English Translation
I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

Webster's Bible Translation
But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

World English Bible
But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

Amplified Bible
But I am sorrowful and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me [securely] on high.

English Standard Version
But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am pore and sorewful; God, thin heelthe took me vp.

Berean Standard Bible
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

Contemporary English Version
I am mistreated and in pain. Protect me, God, and keep me safe!

American Standard Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Bible in Basic English
But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

Complete Jewish Bible
Erase them from the book of life, let them not be written with the righteous.

Darby Translation
But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

New Life Bible
But I am suffering and in pain. O God, may You save me and set me up on high.

New Revised Standard
But I am lowly and in pain; let your salvation, O God, protect me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When I am poore and in heauinesse, thine helpe, O God, shall exalt me.

George Lamsa Translation
But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation help me, O God.

Good News Translation
But I am in pain and despair; lift me up, O God, and save me!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, then, am humbled and in pain, Thy salvation, O God, may it set me on high.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-30) But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

Revised Standard Version
But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for me I am afflicted and in heauinesse: thy sauing helpe O Lorde shal defende me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

Christian Standard Bible®
But as for me—poor and in pain—let your salvation protect me, God.

Hebrew Names Version
But I am in pain and distress. Let your yeshu`ah, God, protect me.

King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Lexham English Bible
But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.

Literal Translation
But I am poor and in pain; O God, Your salvation shall set me on high.

Young's Literal Translation
And I [am] afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the be wyped out of ye boke of the lyuinge, & not be written amonge the rightuous.

THE MESSAGE
I'm hurt and in pain; Give me space for healing, and mountain air.

New American Standard Bible
But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, God, set me safely on high.

New King James Version
But I am poor and sorrowful; Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I am afflicted and in pain;May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

Contextual Overview

²² Their tables are covered with food. Let their fellowship meals destroy them. ²³ Let them go blind and their backs become weak. ²⁴ Show them how angry you are. Let them feel what your anger can do. ²⁵ Make their homes empty. Don't let anyone live there. ²⁶ They try to hurt people you have already punished. They tell everyone about the suffering you gave them. ²⁷ Punish them for the bad things they have done. Don't show them how good you can be. ²⁸ Erase their names from the book of life. Don't let their names appear on the list of those who do what is right. ²⁹ I am sad and hurting. God, lift me up and save me!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am poor: Psalms 40:17, Psalms 109:22, Psalms 109:31, Isaiah 53:2, Isaiah 53:3, Matthew 8:20, 2 Corinthians 8:9

let thy: Psalms 18:48, Psalms 22:27-31, Psalms 89:26, Psalms 89:27, Psalms 91:14-16, Ephesians 1:21, Ephesians 1:22, Philippians 2:9-11

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:24 - For Psalms 70:5 - I am Psalms 109:21 - But do Proverbs 29:25 - safe Matthew 5:4 - General Acts 4:24 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I [am] poor and sorrowful,.... The Messiah was poor in a literal sense, as it was foretold he should, Zechariah 9:9; so he was in his private life; born of poor parents, and brought up in a mean way: and in his public life, having no certain dwelling place, and ministered to by others; and when on the cross, being stripped of his garments; and nothing to eat and drink but gall and vinegar; and nothing to leave to his mother, but commits her to the care of his beloved disciple. Though this phrase in general may denote the low estate of Christ in his humiliation, being in the form of a servant, humbled and obedient to death; and the character of "sorrowful" well agrees with him, who was a man of sorrows all his days; and in the garden his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; and when on the cross he had sorrow enough; what with the sins of his people on him, the flouts and jeers of his enemies at him; the pains of body he endured, the wrath of God, the hidings of his face, and the curses of his righteous law. After this declaration of his low and distressed state, a petition follows:

let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high: meaning either the salvation of the Lord's people, so called, because concerted and appointed of God, and is what he sent his Son to effect, and he approves of; this being wrought out was the way and, means of the exaltation of Christ; both by his divine Father, who on this account exalted him at his right hand; and by his people, who exalt him in their hearts, and with their tongues, and give him all the glory of their salvation. Or else this means the salvation of Christ out of the hands of all his enemies, whom he conquered on the cross; and particularly death, from which he was saved by his resurrection, and was the first step to his exaltation and glory; after which he ascended on high, and sat down at the right hand of God; where no mere creature, angels or men, were ever admitted; and where angels, principalities, and powers, are subject to him. The whole may be rendered thus; "though I am poor and sorrowful, thy salvation, O God, will set me up on high" o; and so is expressive of the Messiah's faith in his resurrection and exaltation, notwithstanding his sorrows and sufferings; on account of which he determines to praise the Lord, as follows.

o תשגבני "elevabit me", Pagninus, Montanus; so Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I am poor and sorrowful - I am afflicted and suffering. The word here rendered “poor” often means “afflicted.”

Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - Let thy help raise me up from my low condition, and exalt me to a place of safety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:29. I am poor and sorrowful — Literally, I an laid low, and full of pain or grief. Hence the prayer, "Let thy salvation, O God set me on high!" My oppression has laid me low; thy salvation shall make me high!