What Does Psalm 38:22 Mean in the King James?
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse holds urgency and trust together: the LORD is named “my deliverance” while help is still being urgently sought.
THE MEANING
The verse gives your urgency plain words while naming the LORD as your deliverance. Help is still requested, even as rescue is named as belonging to the one addressed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This loosens the belief that urgent need means trust has failed: the verse asks for immediate help while calling the LORD “my deliverance.”
THE ROOT
תְּשׁוּעָתִי
teshu'ati
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁע
yasha
To deliver, to bring out to safety.
“my salvation” in this verse is teshu'ati. English can make “salvation” sound like an abstract outcome, but this root carries the movement of deliverance. The verse calls the LORD “my deliverance” even as it asks for help, joining the rescue to the one addressed.
ALSO GROWS
yeshu'ah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
The noun names the rescue itself, echoing the verse’s personal phrase “my deliverance.”
hoshia': He delivered
הוֹשִׁיעַ
This verb makes the root’s movement concrete: deliverance is the act of bringing someone out.
לְעֶזְרָתִי
le'ezrati
GROWS FROM
עָזַר
azar
To help, support, or assist.
The Hebrew keeps the request for help beside the declaration of deliverance. These are not competing ideas: the urgent need is spoken directly to the one named as its support and rescue.
ALSO GROWS
ezer: Help or support
עֵזֶר
This noun shows the concrete support contained in the plea for help.
ozer: Helper; one who helps
עוֹזֵר
This form names the helper, linking the requested aid to the one being addressed.
THE PATTERN
Urgent need can be voiced alongside trust in the LORD as the source of deliverance.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;THE THREAD
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.Isaiah uses יְשׁוּעָתִי (yeshu’ati, “my deliverance”), from the same root יָשַׁע (yasha, “to deliver”) as Psalm 38:22. The connection lets the urgent request remain fully present while God is named as the source of deliverance.
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