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Psalm 119:134

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
134Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
135Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
136Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. TZADHE
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“Redeem me” names a need for rescue from human oppression, while the closing words connect that freedom with a desire to obey God.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 56:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for …Both prayers name oppression by people and appeal to God for help against it.
Psalm 119:122Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.Both ask God to protect his servant from oppression; verse 122 names the proud as those who threaten.
Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,Both connect deliverance from human power with serving God: observing his precepts in the psalm and serving without fear in Luke.
Ezekiel 11:17–20“Therefore say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give …The shared thread is God’s intervention: the psalm seeks release from oppression, while Ezekiel promises gathering from scattered countries.
Psalm 119:146I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.Both join a plea for God’s rescue with a stated intent to obey his commands.
Genesis 32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.Both ask God for deliverance from human hands; Genesis names Esau and the feared attack on mothers and children.
Ezekiel 36:24–27“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.Both concern God changing his people’s circumstances, though Ezekiel speaks of return to their land rather than release from oppression.
Psalm 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.Both plead for deliverance from people who threaten them; Psalm 142 names persecutors whose strength exceeds the speaker’s.
Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the …The psalm seeks freedom from oppression to obey God; Acts describes assemblies living in peace and walking in the Lord’s fear.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

The prayer asks God to end human oppression. Its aim is a life shaped by his precepts, with God’s authority above human power.

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