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Psalms 119:122

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

KJV

Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.

ASV

עֲרֹ֣ב עַבְדְּ/ךָ֣ לְ/ט֑וֹב אַֽל יַעַשְׁקֻ֥/נִי זֵדִֽים

Hebrew

Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

YLT

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
זֵדִ֑ים
zdym
adjective · 12×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
ם
m
verb · 34×
עָ֣רַב
'rb
verb · 23×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Heb 7:22 — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
  • Isa 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Isa 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Job 17:3 — Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  • Job 17:3 — Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  • Prov 22:26 — Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
  • Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • Ps 36:11 — Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
  • Ps 119:21 — Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:134 — Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.