Psalms 25:20
Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.
BSB
ASV
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
KJV
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
O keep my soul,.... Or "life" (n), which was in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held him in it, to preserve it.
O keep my soul out of evil, and deliver me when I fall into it. This is another version of the prayer, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. " Let me not be ashamed. This is the one fear which like a ghost haunted the psalmist's mind. He trembled lest his faith should become the subject of ridicule through the extremity of his affliction. Noble hearts can brook anything but shame. David was of such a chivalrous spirit, that he could endure any torment rather than be put to dishonour.
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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Psalms 121:7The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
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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.
Because you have made the LORD your dwelling— my refuge, the Most High—
The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to surrender him to the will of his foes.
No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
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Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
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He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
