Psalms 59:9

New Living Translation

You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me, for you, O God, are my fortress.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Because of his strength I will watch for You,For God is my stronghold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because of his strength I will watch for You, For God is my stronghold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyl reserue his strength for thee: for thou O Lorde art my refuge.

Darby Translation
Their strength! … I will take heed to thee; for God is my high fortress.

New King James Version
I will wait for You,O You his Strength; [fn] For God is my defense;

Literal Translation
O my Strength, let me look to You; for God is my strong tower.

Easy-to-Read Version
God, my strength, I look to you for help. You are my place of safety, high in the mountains.

World English Bible
Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, For God is my high tower.

King James Version (1611)
Because of his strength will I wait vpon thee: for God is my defence.

King James Version
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My stregth do I ascrybe vnto the, for thou (o God) art my defender.

Amplified Bible
O [God] my strength, I will watch for You; For God is my stronghold [my refuge, my protector, my high tower].

American Standard Version
Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee; For God is my high tower.

Bible in Basic English
O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower.

Update Bible Version
My strength, I will give heed to you; For God is my high tower.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defense.

New English Translation
You are my source of strength! I will wait for you! For God is my refuge.

Contemporary English Version
You are my mighty fortress, and I depend on you.

Complete Jewish Bible
But you, Adonai , laugh at them, you mock all the nations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He is strong: but I will waite vpon thee: for God is my defence.

George Lamsa Translation
To thee shall I give praise, O God, for thou art my defense.

Hebrew Names Version
Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, For God is my high tower.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; Thou shalt have all the nations in derision.

New Life Bible
O my Strength, I will watch for You. For God is my strong place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
will keep my strength, looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

English Revised Version
O my strength, I will wait upon thee: for God is my high tower.

Berean Standard Bible
I will keep watch for You, O my strength; for You, O God, are my fortress.

New Revised Standard
O my strength, I will watch for you; for you, O God, are my fortress.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O my Strength, unto thee, will I make melody, For, God, is my high tower.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(58-10) I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:

Lexham English Bible
O my strength, I will watch for you, because you, O God, are my (high) stronghold.

English Standard Version
O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress.

New American Standard Bible
Because of his strength I will watch for You, For God is my refuge.

New Century Version
God, my strength, I am looking to you, because God is my defender.

Good News Translation
I have confidence in your strength; you are my refuge, O God.

Christian Standard Bible®
I will keep watch for You, my strength, because God is my stronghold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I schal kepe my strengthe to thee;

Young's Literal Translation
O my Strength, unto Thee I take heed, For God [is] my tower -- the God of my kindness.

Revised Standard Version
O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.

Contextual Overview

⁸ But Lord , you laugh at them. You scoff at all the hostile nations. ⁹ You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me, for you, O God, are my fortress. ¹⁰ In his unfailing love, my God will stand with me. He will let me look down in triumph on all my enemies. ¹¹ Don't kill them, for my people soon forget such lessons; stagger them with your power, and bring them to their knees, O Lord our shield. ¹² Because of the sinful things they say, because of the evil that is on their lips, let them be captured by their pride, their curses, and their lies. ¹³ Destroy them in your anger! Wipe them out completely! Then the whole world will know that God reigns in Israel. Interlude ¹⁴ My enemies come out at night, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl the streets. ¹⁵ They scavenge for food but go to sleep unsatisfied. ¹⁶ But as for me, I will sing about your power. Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love. For you have been my refuge, a place of safety when I am in distress. ¹⁷ O my Strength, to you I sing praises, for you, O God, are my refuge, the God who shows me unfailing love.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his strength: Instead of uzzo, "his strength," fourteen manuscripts, read uzzee, "my strength." "O my strength, I will wait upon thee." Psalms 18:1, Psalms 18:1, Psalms 18:2, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 46:1, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 62:11, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 40:31, Matthew 6:13

God: Psalms 59:17, Psalms 62:2

defence: Heb. high place, Psalms 9:9, Psalms 20:1, Psalms 46:7,*marg. Isaiah 58:14, Habakkuk 3:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 59:16 - But Psalms 94:22 - But

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee,.... Either because of the strength of Saul, who was stronger than David, he determined to wait upon the Lord for salvation and deliverance from him; or because of the strength of the Lord, which he expected from him, and therefore would wait upon him for it. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and also the Chaldee paraphrase, render the words, "my strength will I keep for thee"; or "with thee". I ascribe all my strength unto thee; I expect every supply of it from thee, and put my trust and confidence in thee for it: so did Christ as man, and had strength from the Lord, according to his promise, Isaiah 50:7; and so every believer, Isaiah 14:24;

for God [is] my defence; or "my high refuge"; or "high tower" w; see Psalms 9:9; where he was defended and exalted, as is petitioned

Psalms 59:1; and was safe and secure from every enemy.

w משגבי "vice arcis sublimis", Tigurine version; Vatablus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, all to the same purport.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - literally, “His strength - I will wait upon thee.” The reference here is not to the strength or power of God, as if the fact that “He” was powerful was a reason why the psalmist should look to him - but it is to the strength or power of the enemy - of Saul and his followers. There is much abruptness in the expression. The psalmist looks at the power of his enemy. “‘His strength,’ he cries. It is great. It is beyond my power to resist it. It is so great that I have no other refuge but God; and because it is so great, I will fix my eyes on him alone.” The word rendered “wait upon” means rather to look to; to observe; to fix the eyes upon.

For God is my defense - Margin, “My high place.” That is, God was to him “as” a high place, or a place of refuge; a place where he would be safe. See the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 59:9. Because of his strength will I wait upon thee — With this reading, I can make no sense of the passage. But instead of עזו uzzo, "his strength," עזי uzzi, "my strength," is the reading of fourteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., of the Vulgate, Septuagint, Chaldee, and, in effect, of the AEthiopic, Syriac, and Arabic; and also of the Anglo-Saxon. To thee I commit all MY strength; all I have I derive from thee, and all the good I possess I attribute to thee. The old Psalter translates, My strenght I shall kepe till the, for myn uptaker thou art. See on Psalms 59:17.