Psalms 38:15 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 38:15

For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

KJV

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WEB

I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

DBT

For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord myGod.

ASV

For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

YLT

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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5 verses on the floor

Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Psalms 17:6
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Psalms 138:3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
Psalms 123:1–3
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): " I was as a man that opens not his mouth, for in thee, O Lord! do I hope. I depend upon thee to plead my cause and clear my innocency, and, some way or other, to put my enemies to silence and shame." His lovers and friends, that should have owned him, and stood by him, and appeared as witnesses for him, withdrew from him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

for he is confident the Lord--literally, "Sovereign" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (Ps 3:4; 4:1), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

); "in thee do I hope, for thou wilt hear, lest they should rejoice over me. I comforted myself with that when I was apprehensive that they would overwhelm me." It is a great support to us, when men are false and unkind, that we have a God to go to whom we may be free with and who will be faithful to us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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