Psalms 69:18

English Standard Version

Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Come near to me and redeem me;ransom me because of my enemies.

Hebrew Names Version
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

King James Version
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

New Century Version
Come near and save me; rescue me from my enemies.

New English Translation
Come near me and redeem me! Because of my enemies, rescue me!

Amplified Bible
Draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies [so that they do not delight in my distress].

New American Standard Bible
Come near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!

World English Bible
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Draw neere vnto my soule and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.

Legacy Standard Bible
Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it;Ransom me because of my enemies!

Berean Standard Bible
Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

Contemporary English Version
Come and save me from my enemies.

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.

Darby Translation
Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.

Easy-to-Read Version
Come save my soul. Rescue me from my enemies.

George Lamsa Translation
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of mine enemies.

Good News Translation
Come to me and save me; rescue me from my enemies.

Lexham English Bible
Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

Literal Translation
draw near My soul; redeem it; ransom Me because of My enemies.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hyde not thy face from thy seruaut, for I am in trouble: O haist ye to helpe me.

American Standard Version
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies.

Bible in Basic English
Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And hide not Thy face from Thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Draw nigh vnto my soule & redeeme it: for myne enemies sake oh redeeme me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

English Revised Version
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: ransom me because of mine enemies.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou tente to my soule, and delyuer thou it; for myn enemyes delyuere thou me.

Update Bible Version
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of my enemies.

Webster's Bible Translation
Draw nigh to my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

New King James Version
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies.

New Living Translation
Come and redeem me; free me from my enemies.

New Life Bible
Come near to me and save me. Pay the price to set me free from those who hate me.

New Revised Standard
Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Oh draw near unto my soul - redeem it, Because of mine enemies, ransom me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-19) Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.

Revised Standard Version
Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!

Young's Literal Translation
Be near unto my soul -- redeem it, Because of mine enemies ransom me.

THE MESSAGE
Come close, God; get me out of here. Rescue me from this deathtrap.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!

Contextual Overview

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord . At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness. ¹⁴ Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me. ¹⁶ Answer me, O Lord , for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. ¹⁷ Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. ¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies! ¹⁹ You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you. ²⁰ Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. ²¹ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Draw: Psalms 10:1, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:19, Jeremiah 14:8

redeem: Psalms 31:5, Psalms 111:9, Job 6:23

because: Deuteronomy 32:27, Joshua 7:9

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:11 - Be not Psalms 26:11 - redeem Psalms 70:1 - O God Psalms 71:12 - O God Psalms 141:1 - make haste Lamentations 3:57 - drewest Matthew 26:42 - the second

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Draw nigh unto my soul,.... God his father, while he was suffering, stood afar off from him; wherefore he desires that he would draw nigh to him in the manifestations of his love and favour to him; which he did, when he made known to him the way of life, and made him full of joy with his countenance;

[and] redeem it: that is, from the power of the grave; not leave it there, but raise him from the dead, and give him glory, as he did;

deliver me, because of mine enemies; that they might not triumph over him, as if, being dead, he should rise no more; and so the Targum,

"that mine enemies might not lift up themselves against me.''

Or the meaning is, deliver me from the grave, raise me from the dead, that I may requite mine enemies, and take vengeance on them; see

Psalms 41:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Draw nigh unto my soul - To me - for my life is in danger.

And redeem it - Ransom it; save it from ruin. See the notes at Isaiah 43:3; notes at Isaiah 44:22.

Deliver me, because of mine enemies - Because they are so numerous, so powerful, and so determined on my destruction. Compare Psalms 13:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:18. Deliver me because of mine enemies. — Probably they now began to think that the redemption of these captives was not an impossible thing; that it was not far off; and therefore they had great rage, because they found their time was but short.