As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
- KJV And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
- NKJV And indeed, as your life was valued much this day in my eyes, so let my life be valued much in the eyes of the Lord, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation.”
- NASB Therefore behold, just as your life was highly valued in my sight this day, so may my life be highly valued in the sight of the Lord, and may He rescue me from all distress.”
- NLT Now may the Lord value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”
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Quick answer
David asks that, as he valued Saul's life, God would value and deliver his own. He grounds his hope of rescue in his faithful conduct.
Overview
David draws a moral parallel: having esteemed Saul's life, he asks God to esteem and deliver his own from all distress. He appeals not to merit that earns salvation but to God's faithfulness to honor faithfulness. The prayer expresses settled trust that the God who sees the heart will preserve His servant.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 2 Cor 1:9–10Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
- Ps 54:7For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have stared down my foes.
- Ps 34:17–18The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
- Ps 18:25To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
- 2 Th 3:2And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.
- Ps 18:1For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
- Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
- Matt 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Rev 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Ps 144:2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
- Ps 18:48who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
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