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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

Psalms 31:3

You are my rock and my fortress. For the honor of your name, lead me out of this danger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Faith;   Fort;   God Continued...;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   The Topic Concordance - Foundation;   God;   Guidance;   Strength;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rocks;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Guidance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Rock;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fortress;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fortress;   Rock;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 15;  

Parallel Translations

English Revised Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
Update Bible Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
New Century Version
You are my rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.
New English Translation
For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
World English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Amplified Bible
Yes, You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.
English Standard Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou art my strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.
Berean Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead and guide me for the sake of Your name.
Contemporary English Version
You, Lord God, are my mighty rock and my fortress. Lead me and guide me, so that your name will be honored.
American Standard Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
Bible in Basic English
For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.
Complete Jewish Bible
Turn your ear toward me, come quickly to my rescue, be for me a rock of strength, a fortress to keep me safe.
Darby Translation
For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, you are my Rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Incline Thine ear unto me, deliver me speedily;
King James Version (1611)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therfore for thy names sake lead me, and guide me.
New Life Bible
For You are my rock and my safe place. For the honor of Your name, lead me and show me the way.
New Revised Standard
You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead me and guide me,
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake directe mee and guide me.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou art my strength and my refuge; therefore for thy names sake comfort me and guide me.
Good News Translation
You are my refuge and defense; guide me and lead me as you have promised.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, my mountain crag and my stronghold, thou art, Therefore, for the sake of thine own Name, wilt thou lead me and guide me?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-4) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
Revised Standard Version
Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thou art my strong rocke and fortresse: euen for thy name sake conduct me, and direct me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name’s sake, and maintain me.
Christian Standard Bible®
For you are my rock and my fortress;you lead and guide mefor your name’s sake.
Hebrew Names Version
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
King James Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Lexham English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.
Literal Translation
For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Young's Literal Translation
For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
be thou my stronge rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me.
THE MESSAGE
You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.
New American Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; For the sake of Your name You will lead me and guide me.
New King James Version
For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For You are my high rock and my fortress;For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

Contextual Overview

1

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

O Lord , I have come to you for protection; don't let me be disgraced. Save me, for you do what is right. 2 Turn your ear to listen to me; rescue me quickly. Be my rock of protection, a fortress where I will be safe. 3 You are my rock and my fortress. For the honor of your name, lead me out of this danger. 4 Pull me from the trap my enemies set for me, for I find protection in you alone. 5 I entrust my spirit into your hand. Rescue me, Lord , for you are a faithful God. 6 I hate those who worship worthless idols. I trust in the Lord . 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love, for you have seen my troubles, and you care about the anguish of my soul. 8 You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for thy: Psalms 23:2, Psalms 23:3, Psalms 25:11, Psalms 79:9, Joshua 7:9, Jeremiah 14:7, Ezekiel 36:21, Ezekiel 36:22, Ephesians 1:12

lead: Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 143:10, Psalms 143:11, Nehemiah 9:12, Nehemiah 9:19, Isaiah 49:10, Luke 1:79, John 16:13

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:2 - General Psalms 71:3 - my strong habitation Psalms 109:21 - But do Isaiah 32:2 - rock

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
Genesis 21:22
About this time, Abimelech came with Phicol, his army commander, to visit Abraham. "God is obviously with you, helping you in everything you do," Abimelech said.
Genesis 26:24
where the Lord appeared to him on the night of his arrival. "I am the God of your father, Abraham," he said. "Do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you. I will multiply your descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant."
Genesis 28:4
May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham."
Genesis 28:13
At the top of the stairway stood the Lord , and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.
Genesis 30:25
Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Please release me so I can go home to my own country.
Genesis 31:2
And Jacob began to notice a change in Laban's attitude toward him.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your father and grandfather and to your relatives there, and I will be with you."
Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father's attitude toward me has changed. But the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou [art] my rock and my fortress,.... What he prayed for he knew him to be, and to have been in times past, and could claim his interest in him; and therefore entreats that he would appear to be to him what he was in himself, and what he had been to him;

therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me; either as a shepherd does his flock, gently, as they are able to bear it; into the green pastures of the word and ordinances, and beside the still waters of divine love, and to the overflowing fountain, and fulness of grace in himself; or as a general leads and guides his army; Christ being a Leader and Commander of the people, and the great Captain of their salvation, and who being at the head of them, they fear no enemy; or as a guide leads and directs such as are ignorant, and out of the way. The psalmist desires the Lord would lead him in the way of truth and paths of righteousness, according to his word; and guide him with his counsel, and by his Spirit, that so he might walk in the way in which he should go; and this he entreats he would do "for [his] name's sake"; not for any merit or worthiness in him; but for the glory of his own name, and for the honour of his free grace and mercy, for which the Lord often does many things; he defers his anger, he purges away the sins of his people, he forgives their transgressions, and remembers their sins no more, for his name's sake.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou art my rock and my fortress - See the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Therefore for thy name’s sake - For the sake of thine own honor, or for the glory of thy name. See the notes at Psalms 23:3. That is, since thou art my rock and my defense - since I put my trust in thee - show, by leading and guiding me, that my trust is well founded, or that this is Thy character, and that Thou wilt be true and faithful to those who commit their all to thee. See the notes at Psalms 31:1.


 
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