Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
Parallel translations
- KJV Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
- BSB Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
- NKJV Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
- NASB ¶Remember me, Lord, in Your favor toward Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,
- NLT Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people; come near and rescue me.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to remember him with the favor and salvation He shows His people. It matters because it appeals to God's covenant grace for personal deliverance.
Overview
The writer prays to share in the salvation God grants His chosen people. This is a plea grounded not in personal merit but in God's favor toward His own. It expresses the believer's desire to belong to the saved community and to experience God's saving help.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- Luke 23:42He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
- Neh 13:14Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
- Neh 13:31and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
- Ps 25:7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
- Neh 13:22I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
- Neh 5:19Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- Acts 15:14Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
- Luke 1:68–69“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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