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Psalm 73:23–24

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73:23But I am continually with you;

you hold my right hand.

73:24You guide42 me by your wise advice,

and then you will lead me to a position of honor.43

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Footnotes

  1. 42 The imperfect verbal form here suggests this is the psalmist’s ongoing experience.
  2. 43 Heb “and afterward [to] glory you will take me.” Some interpreters view this as the psalmist’s confidence in an afterlife in God’s presence and understand כָּבוֹד (cavod) as a metonymic reference to God’s presence in heaven. But this seems unlikely in the present context. The psalmist anticipates a time of vindication, when the wicked are destroyed and he is honored by God for his godly life style. The verb לָקַח (laqakh, “take”) here carries the nuance “lead, guide, conduct,” as in Num 23:14, 27–28; Josh 24:3 and Prov 24:11.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Nevertheless, I am continually with you;

you hold my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will receive me to glory.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Yet I am always with you;

you hold me by my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will take me into glory.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Yet I am always with you;

you hold my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will take me up in glory.

NLTNew Living Translation

Yet I still belong to you;

you hold my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

leading me to a glorious destiny.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But I am continually with you;

you have hold of my right hand.

You will guide me with your advice,

and afterward you will take me into honor.

KJV 1900King James Version

Nevertheless I am continually with thee:

Thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,

And afterward receive me to glory.