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Thursday, October 31st, 2024
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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King James Version

Psalms 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

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

New Living Translation
May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
English Revised Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.
Update Bible Version
Let 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!
Webster's Bible Translation
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
World English Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Amplified Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait [expectantly] for You.
English Standard Version
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Innocent men and riytful cleuyden to me; for Y suffride thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let mine vprightnes and equitie preserue me: for mine hope is in thee.
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.
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.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
May integrity and what is rightwatch over me,for I wait for you.
Hebrew Names Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for 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.
Young's Literal Translation
Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.
THE MESSAGE
Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product.
New American Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
New King James Version
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let integrity and uprightness guard me,For I hope in You.

Contextual Overview

15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord ; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

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
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 25:2
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:3
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis 25:10
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Genesis 25:16
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
Genesis 25:19
And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

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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