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Psalms 54:4
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Behold, God is my helper;The Lord is among those who sustain my soul.
Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
Behold, God is an ayde vnto me: the Lorde is with them that vpholde my soule.
Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul.
Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who uphold my life.
Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is with those who uphold my soul.
Look, my God will help me. My Lord will support me.
Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that vphold my soule.
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
Sela. But lo, God is my helper: it is he that vpholdeth my soule.
Oh, look! God's right here helping! God 's on my side, Evil is looping back on my enemies. Don't let up! Finish them off!
Behold, God is my helper and ally; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul [my upholder].
Behold, God is my helper: The Lord is of them that uphold my soul.
See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.
Look, God is my helper: The Lord is of those that uphold my soul.
Behold, God [is] my helper: the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul.
Look, God is my deliverer! The Lord is among those who support me.
You will help me, Lord God, and keep me from falling;
God, hear my prayer; listen to the words from my mouth.
Beholde, God is mine helper: the Lorde is with them that vpholde my soule.
Behold, God is my helper; the LORD sustains my soul.
Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
See, God is my Helper. The Lord is the One Who keeps my soul alive.
For lo! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul.
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is of them that uphold my soul.
Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
But surely, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
Lo! God, is bringing me help, My Lord, is with the upholders of my life;
(53-6) For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life.
Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
See, God will help me; the Lord will support me.
But God is my helper. The Lord is my defender.
God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life.
For, lo! God helpith me; and the Lord is vptaker of my soule.
Lo, God [is] a helper to me, The Lord [is] with those supporting my soul,
Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 118:6, Psalms 118:7, Psalms 118:13, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 42:1, Isaiah 50:7-9, Romans 8:31, Hebrews 13:6
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:14 - Saul 1 Samuel 23:19 - the Ziphites Psalms 30:10 - be thou Psalms 40:17 - help Psalms 63:7 - Because Psalms 124:1 - The Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, God [is] mine helper,.... This being a matter of wonder to be helped in so extraordinary a manner, and a sure and certain case, and what was deserving the attention of others; for the encouragement of their faith and hope in like cases, a "behold" is prefixed unto it: and what is here said is true of David's son, the Messiah, and is expressed by him in much the same language, Isaiah 50:9; and of all the saints whom the Lord helps, as at first conversion, out of the pit wherein is no water, out of the horrible pit, the mire and clay of nature's darkness, ignorance, and unbelief; so out of all their afflictions and temptations, and out of the hands of all their enemies; he helps in the exercise of grace, and in the discharge of duty; and he helps to all mercies, temporal and spiritual, needful for them; which help is quick and present, seasonable and suitable, always sufficient; and is what they have reason to expect both from what he has said to them in promise, and from what he has done for them;
the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul; that ministered to his sustenance, as Abigail did, and that gathered to him and joined him, and exposed their lives in the defence of him; these the Lord was with, blessed, protected, and afforded them his gracious presence. Such there were with Christ; who followed him in the regeneration; who ministered to him of their substance, whom God rewarded in a way of grace; and he blesses them that bless his, and do good to them; they being the excellent in the earth, in whom is his delight, the apple of his eye, and his jewels. Or the sense is, that the Lord is he that upheld his soul; not only the chief of his upholders, but the only one: so R. Moses l interprets it, that he is the alone upholder, and is instead of all upholders, and answers to them all; who upheld his soul in life, and followed him with his goodness: as when God is said to be the first, and "with the last", the meaning is, that he is the first and the last, Isaiah 41:4; see Psalms 118:7; so he upheld the soul of Christ in the wilderness, and in the garden, and on the cross; see Isaiah 42:1. And he upholds all his people in a providential way in their beings, and supplies them with all the necessaries of life; and, in a spiritual way, maintaining their spiritual life, supplying them with all grace, bearing them up under all trials, holding up their goings in his ways, and preserving them to the end.
l Apud Aben Ezram in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, God is mine helper - That is, God alone can aid me in these circumstances, and to him I confidently look.
The Lord is with them that uphold my soul - My friends; those who have rallied around me to defend me; those who comfort me by their presence; those who sustain me in my cause, and who keep me from sinking under the burden of my accumulated troubles.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 54:4. Behold, God is mine helper — This would naturally occur to him when he saw that Saul was obliged to leave the pursuit, and go to defend his territories, when he was on the very point of seizing him. God, whose providence is ever watchful, had foreseen this danger, and stirred up the Philistines to make this inroad just at the time in which Saul and his army were about to lay hands on David. Well might he then say, "Behold, God is mine helper."
Is with them, that uphold my soul. — נפשי naphshi, my life. This may even refer to the Philistines, who had at this time made an inroad on Israel. God was even with his own enemies, by making them instruments to save the life of his servant.
