Bible Strands
Psalms 6:4
Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks directly to Yahweh in a moment of acute personal distress, positioned between a repeated question about delay (Psalms 6:3) and a statement that death removes one from the place of praise (Psalms 6:5).
The words — The text commands Yahweh to "turn" (שׁוּבָה, shuvah) and "rescue" (חַלְצָה, chaltzah) the speaker’s life (נַפְשִׁי, nafshi), explicitly tying the request to "save" (הוֹשִׁיעֵנִי, hoshi'eni) to God’s covenant loyalty (חַסְדֶּךָ, chasdekha).
The thread — The plea to rescue the soul appears in Psalms 116:4, where the speaker calls on the name of the LORD for deliverance, and in Daniel 9:18, where the petitioners ask God to incline His ear and observe the desolation of the city that bears His name.
Why it lands — The text demands immediate divine intervention grounded in covenant commitment rather than human merit, requiring the reader to recognize that urgent appeals for deliverance must rest on God’s faithful character.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
Cross-references
- Daniel 9:18 Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Psalms 17:13 Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
- Psalms 116:4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”
- Ephesians 2:7 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
- Psalms 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
- Psalms 80:14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
- Psalms 90:13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Psalms 121:7 The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
- Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.