What more can David say to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant.
Parallel translations
- WEB What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
- KJV What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
- BSB What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,
- NASB What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.
- NLT “What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like.
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Quick answer
David asks what more he can say, for God knows His servant. He rests in God's intimate knowledge rather than his own words.
Overview
David, lost for words before such honor, acknowledges that God already knows him fully. Humbled, he ceases to plead his own worth and simply trusts God's gracious knowledge of him. This rest in being fully known by God anticipates the believer's confidence that God, who knows us completely, loves us in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 1 Sam 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
- 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
- 2 Sam 7:20–24What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
- Ps 139:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
- John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
- Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
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