Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
- KJV Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
- NKJV Whoever is wise will observe these things, And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
- NASB Who is wise? He is to pay attention to these things, And consider the mercy of the Lord.
- NLT Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.
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The wise will heed these things and ponder the loving kindnesses of the LORD.
Overview
The psalm closes by calling the wise to attentively consider God's steadfast love displayed in all these deliverances. True wisdom reflects on the LORD's hesed and learns to trust him. This summons to meditate on God's loving kindness finds its richest object in the cross, where his covenant love is most fully revealed.
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- Hos 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
- Ps 64:9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
- Jer 9:12Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
- Eph 3:18–19will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
- Dan 10:12“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
- Jer 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
- Ps 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
- Ps 28:5Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.
- Isa 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
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