What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.
Parallel translations
- WEB What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
- KJV And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
- NKJV Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord God, know Your servant.
- NASB Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, Lord God!
- NLT “What more can I say to you? You know what your servant is really like, Sovereign Lord.
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Quick answer
David confessed he had no more to say, since the LORD already knew His servant fully. Humble dependence replaces any attempt to add to God's grace.
Overview
Words fail David before such generosity; he rests in the fact that God knows him completely. This expresses childlike trust: there is nothing to negotiate or earn, only to receive with gratitude. True prayer often ends not in eloquence but in quiet confidence that God knows and cares for His servants.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 1 Sam 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- John 21:17Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
- Ps 139:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Rev 2:23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
- John 2:25He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
- Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
- Gen 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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