Psalms 119:122
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
BSB
ASV
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
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Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
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Isaiah 38:14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
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We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
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Psalms 119:21You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
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Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Be surety for thy servant for good,.... The psalmist was, in a like case with Hezekiah, oppressed; and therefore desires the Lord would undertake for him, appear on his side, and defend him, Psa 38:14; and if God himself is the surety of his people, and engages in their behalf, they need fear no enemy. What David prays to God to be for him, that Christ is for all his people, Heb 7:
Be surety for thy servant - ערב arob, give a pledge or token that thou wilt help me in times of necessity. Or, Be bail for thy servant. What a word is this! Pledge thyself for me, that thou wilt produce me safely at the judgment of the great day. Then sustain and keep me blameless till the coming of Christ. Neither of these two verses has any of the ten words in reference to God’s law or attributes. The judgment and the justice refer to the psalmist’s own conduct in Psa 119:1
