Psalm 71:4 {70:4}
Good News Translation
My God, rescue me from wicked people, from the power of cruel and evil people.

New Revised Standard Version
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel.

Contemporary English Version
Come and save me, LORD God, from vicious and cruel and brutal enemies!

New American Bible
My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the clutches of the evil and violent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

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Psalm 17:8,9,13 From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings. . . .

Psalm 59:1,2 Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [2] Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me. . . .

Psalm 140:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. . . .

2 Samuel 16:21,22 And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be strengthened with thee. . . .

2 Samuel 17:1,2,12-14,21 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
3Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge. 4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.5For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.

Psalm 140:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.

Psalm 140:4
Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:

Psalm 71:3
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