Psalms 119:117
Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
BSB
ASV
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, And shall have respect unto thy statutes continually.
KJV
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Hold thou me up - Keep me from falling in the trials and temptations of life. The Hebrew word means to prop, uphold, support. The Septuagint is, “Aid me.” And I shall be safe - And I shall be saved; or, that I may be saved. It is an acknowledgment of entire dependence on God for salvation - temporal and eternal. And I will have respect ... - I will look to thy statutes; I will have them always in my eye. Compare the notes at Psa 119:6.
The walk8
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Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
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And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
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Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
