O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
- KJV O LORD, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
- NKJV O Lord, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
- NASB Lord, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
- NLT For the sake of your servant, O Lord, and according to your will, you have done all these great things and have made them known.
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Quick answer
David confesses that God has done this great thing for His servant's sake and according to His own heart. God's covenant flows from His own gracious will.
Overview
David acknowledges that the magnificent promise springs from God's own heart and purpose, not David's deserving. God acts to reveal His greatness and to bless His servant freely. This grounding of salvation in God's own gracious heart is the foundation of the gospel, where God saves according to His own will and love in Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- Isa 37:35‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Isa 49:5–6And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—
- Eph 1:9–11And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
- Dan 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
- Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Ps 111:3Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.
- Ps 111:6He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
- 2 Sam 7:21For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
- Matt 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
- 1 Chr 29:11–12Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Isa 49:3He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
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