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Psalm 138 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
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  • 2020
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Oh Yavé, te doy gracias con todo mi corazón. Te cantaré alabanzas delante de los ʼelohim.
1 By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.
2 Me postraré hacia tu santo Templo Y daré gracias a tu Nombre por tu misericordia y tu verdad, Porque engrandeciste tu Palabra por encima de todo tu Nombre.
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 El día cuando invoqué, Tú me respondiste. Me volviste atrevido con fortaleza en mi alma.
3 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
4 Todos los reyes de la tierra te darán gracias, oh Yavé, Cuando oigan las Palabras 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 Y cantarán de los caminos de Yavé, ¡Porque grande es la gloria de Yavé!
5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, for Yahweh’s glory is great!
6 Porque aunque Yavé es exaltado, Sin embargo, atiende al humilde, Pero al altivo conoce de lejos.
6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
7 Aunque yo ande en medio de la aflicción, Tú me vivificarás. Extenderás tu mano contra la ira de mis enemigos, Y me salvará tu mano derecha.
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 Yavé hará lo que concierne a mí. Oh Yavé, tu misericordia es para siempre, No desampares 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).

How these were chosen

“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)