Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
Parallel translations
- WEB Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your 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 119:132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
- Luke 23:42And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
- Neh 13:14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
- Neh 13:31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
- Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
- Neh 13:22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
- Neh 5:19Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
- Acts 15:14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
- Luke 1:68–69Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath 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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