King James Version
Psalms 55:16 in the King James Version says “As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 55 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.”
Psalms 55:16 · KJV
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. We: Heb. Who sweetened counsel
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. hell: or, the grave
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“upon God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“As for me I will call”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“and the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“shall save”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
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