Psalm 119:122
New International Version
Ensure your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

New Living Translation
Please guarantee a blessing for me. Don’t let the arrogant oppress me!

English Standard Version
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.

Berean Standard Bible
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

King James Bible
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

New King James Version
Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the proud oppress me.

New American Standard Bible
Be a guarantor for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NASB 1995
Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NASB 1977
Be surety for Thy servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be for Your slave a guarantee for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Amplified Bible
Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin]; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Christian Standard Bible
Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

American Standard Version
Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.

Contemporary English Version
Take good care of me, your servant, and don't let me be harmed by those conceited people.

English Revised Version
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Guarantee my well-being. Do not let arrogant people oppress me.

Good News Translation
Promise that you will help your servant; don't let the arrogant oppress me!

International Standard Version
Back up your servant in a positive way; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Majority Standard Bible
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

NET Bible
Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!

New Heart English Bible
Ensure your servant's well-being. Do not let the proud oppress me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

World English Bible
Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Make Your servant sure for good, "" Do not let the proud oppress me.

Young's Literal Translation
Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

Smith's Literal Translation
Be surety for thy servant for good: the proud shall not oppress me.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Uphold your servant in what is good. And do not allow the arrogant to slander me.

New American Bible
Guarantee your servant’s welfare; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

New Revised Standard Version
Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the godless oppress me.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Comfort thy servant with goodness; let not the proud slander me.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Delight your Servant in goodness and do not let the proud slander me.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Be surety for Thy servant for good; Let not the proud oppress me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
121I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors. 122Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me. 123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.…

Cross References
Proverbs 22:26-27
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. / If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Isaiah 38:14
I 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.”

Job 17:3
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

Isaiah 51:22
Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

Jeremiah 30:21
Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

Nehemiah 5:12-13
“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised. / I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. / Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 22:16
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

Luke 11:4
And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”

Romans 8:34
Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.


Treasury of Scripture

Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

surety

Genesis 43:9
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Proverbs 22:26,27
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts…

Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Hebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

let not

Psalm 119:21
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Psalm 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














Ensure Your servant’s well-being
The Hebrew word for "ensure" is "עָרַב" (arab), which can mean to pledge or guarantee. This word conveys a deep sense of commitment and responsibility. The psalmist is asking God to take personal responsibility for his welfare, reflecting a profound trust in God's providence and care. The term "servant" (עֶבֶד, ebed) denotes a relationship of humility and submission to God, acknowledging His sovereignty. The phrase "well-being" suggests not just physical safety but also spiritual and emotional peace, aligning with the holistic peace (shalom) that God promises His people.

do not let the arrogant oppress me
The "arrogant" (זֵדִים, zedim) refers to those who are prideful and insolent, often acting in defiance of God's laws. Historically, the arrogant are those who trust in their own strength and wisdom rather than in God. The psalmist's plea to not be oppressed by such individuals highlights a recurring biblical theme: the struggle between the righteous and the wicked. The word "oppress" (עָשַׁק, ashaq) implies exploitation and unjust treatment. This plea is a call for divine justice, asking God to intervene and protect His faithful servant from those who would seek to harm him through prideful and unjust means.

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(122) Be surety.--Just as Judah became surety for the safety of Benjamin (Genesis 43:9), so the psalmist asks God to be answerable for the servant who had been faithful to the covenant, and stand between him and the attacks of the proud. So Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:14) asks God to "undertake" for him against the threat of death. There is also, no doubt, the further thought that the Divine protection would vindicate the profession which the loyal servant makes of his obedience, as in Job 17:3, where God is summoned as the only possible guarantee of the sufferer's innocence. This and Psalm 119:132 are the only verses not actually mentioning, under one of its terms, the Law.

Verse 122. - Be surety for thy servant for good (comp. Job 17:3; Isaiah 38:14). "For good" means "so that it may be well with him." Let not the proud oppress me (comp. vers. 51, 69, 78, 85, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Ensure
עֲרֹ֣ב (‘ă·rōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security

Your servant’s
עַבְדְּךָ֣ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

well-being;
לְט֑וֹב (lə·ṭō·wḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

do not
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

let the arrogant
זֵדִֽים׃ (zê·ḏîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2086: Insolent, presumptuous

oppress me.
יַעַשְׁקֻ֥נִי (ya·‘aš·qu·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow


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