Psalms 69 · Verse 29

Psalms 69:29

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms 69:29, King James Version

Psalms 69:29 in other translations

BSBBut I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
WEBBut I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
ASVBut I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
YLTAnd I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.
DARBYBut I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, OGod, set me secure on high.
BBEBut I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.
WebsterBut I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

What does Psalms 69:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. poor and sorrowful--the afflicted pious, often denoted by such terms (compare Psa 10:17; 12:5). set me ... high--out of danger.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 29 I am poor and sorrowful - Literally, I an laid low, and full of pain or grief. Hence the prayer, "Let thy salvation, O God set me on high!" My oppression has laid me low; thy salvation shall make me high!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 69:22-29

These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses #(22-23), are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Ro 11:9, 10. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their…

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Psalms 69:29 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַ֭אֲנִיVa.'a.niand IH589
עָנִ֣י'a.Ni[am] afflictedH6041
וְכוֹאֵ֑בve.kho.'Evand [am] in painH3510
יְשׁוּעָתְךָ֖ye.shu.'a.te.Khasalvation yourH3444
אֱלֹהִ֣ים'E.lo.HimO GodH430
תְּשַׂגְּבֵֽנִי\׃te.sa.ge.Ve.nimay it set on high meH7682

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 69:29

  • Psalms 91:14-16

    Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

  • Psalms 40:17

    But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

  • Psalms 70:5

    But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

  • Psalms 109:22

    For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • Philippians 2:9-11

    Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

  • Psalms 20:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

  • Isaiah 53:2-3

    For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

  • Psalms 18:48

    He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

  • Ephesians 1:21-22

    Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

  • 2 Corinthians 8:9

    For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

  • Psalms 109:31

    For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

  • Psalms 59:1

    To the chief Musician, Al–taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am poor.
40:17; 109:22,31; Isa 53:2,3; Mt 8:20; 2Co 8:9
let thy.
18:48; 22:27-31; 89:26,27; 91:14-16; Eph 1:21,22; Php 2:9-11

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Context

  • Psalms 69:28

    Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

  • Psalms 69:29

    But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

  • Psalms 69:30

    I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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Psalms 69:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y yo afligido y dolorido, tu salud, oh Dios, me defenderá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Qu’ils soient effacés du livre de vie, et qu’ils ne soient pas inscrits avec les justes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich aber bin elend, und mir ist wehe; deine Rettung, o Gott, setze mich in Sicherheit!