Psalm 79:9 {78:9}
Good News Translation
Help us, O God, and save us; rescue us and forgive our sins for the sake of your own honor.

New Revised Standard Version
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, you keep us safe. Now help us! Rescue us. Forgive our sins and bring honor to yourself.

New American Bible
Help us, God our savior, on account of the glory of your name. Deliver us, pardon our sins for your name’s sake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

for the

Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

2 Chronicles 14:11 And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Ephesians 1:6 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

purge

Psalm 25:11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

Psalm 65:3 The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Daniel 9:9,19 But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee: . . .

for thy

Joshua 7:9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:9 For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Jeremiah 14:7,21 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee. . . .

Ezekiel 20:9,14 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
8Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. 9Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:10Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:43
Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

2 Chronicles 14:11
And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.

Psalm 25:5
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

Psalm 25:11
For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

Psalm 31:3
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

Psalm 39:8
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

Psalm 65:3
The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Psalm 66:2
Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.

Psalm 96:8
Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts:

Psalm 109:21
But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,

Jeremiah 14:7
If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

Ezekiel 16:63
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Psalm 79:8
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