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Psalm 138 Literal Standard Version

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Majority (Byzantine) text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 2020
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

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LSV Literal Standard Version
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 BY DAVID. I confess You with all my heart, || I praise You before the gods.
1 Salmo de David. ALABARTE he con todo mi corazón: delante de los dioses te cantaré salmos.
1 By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.
2 I bow myself toward Your holy temple, || And I confess Your Name, || For Your kindness, and for Your truth, || For You have made Your saying great above all Your Name.
2 Encorvaréme al templo de tu santuario, y alabaré tu nombre por tu misericordia y tu verdad: porque has hecho magnífico tu nombre, y tu dicho sobre todas las cosas.
2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
3 In the day I called, when You answer me, || You strengthen me in my soul [with] strength.
3 En el día que clamé, me respondiste; esforzásteme con fortaleza en mi alma.
3 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
4 O YHWH, all kings of earth confess You, || When they have heard the sayings of Your mouth.
4 Confesarte han, oh Jehová, todos los reyes de la tierra, cuando habrán oído los dichos de tu boca.
4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.
5 And they sing in the ways of YHWH, || For the glory of YHWH [is] great.
5 Y cantarán de los caminos de Jehová: que la gloria de Jehová es grande.
5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, for Yahweh’s glory is great!
6 For YHWH [is] high, and He sees the lowly, || And He knows the haughty from afar.
6 Porque el alto Jehová atiende al humilde; mas al altivo mira de lejos.
6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
7 If I walk in the midst of distress You quicken me, || You send forth Your hand against the anger of my enemies, || And Your right hand saves me.
7 Si anduviere yo en medio de la angustia, tú me vivificarás: contra la ira de mis enemigos extenderás tu mano, y salvaráme tu diestra.
7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
8 YHWH perfects for me, || O YHWH, Your kindness [is] for all time, || Do not let the works of Your hands fall!
8 Jehová cumplirá por mí: tu misericordia, oh Jehová, [es] para siempre; no dejarás la obra de tus manos.
8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 111:1; Psalm 95:3; 1 Corinthians 14:15; Psalm 86:12–13; Psalm 96:4
  2. 2 Matthew 5:18; Psalm 56:10; Isaiah 42:21; Matthew 24:35; Psalm 56:4
  3. 3 1 Peter 5:10; Psalm 18:6; Psalm 34:4–6; Isaiah 40:29–31; Zechariah 10:12
  4. 4 Psalm 102:15; Psalm 72:11; Psalm 22:22; Psalm 22:27; Psalm 102:22
  5. 5 Revelation 4:11; Psalm 21:5; Revelation 7:12; Malachi 1:11; Exodus 15:11
  6. 6 Psalm 113:5–6; Isaiah 57:15; 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Proverbs 3:34; James 4:6
  7. 7 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 23:3–4; Psalm 71:20–21; Psalm 85:6; Acts 2:33
  8. 8 Philippians 1:6; Psalm 57:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; Isaiah 26:12; Psalm 136:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXXVII)

    But to-day we have sung, "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Sion" (ver. 1).... 2. Observe "the waters of Babylon." "The waters of Babylon" are all things which here are loved, and pass away.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)