Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
Parallel translations
- WEB Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
- KJV Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy 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 show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
- Neh 13:14Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
- Neh 13:31I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
- Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- Neh 13:22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.
- Neh 5:19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
- Acts 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
- Luke 1:68–69“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because 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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