Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
Parallel translations
- WEB Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- KJV Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
- ESV Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!
- NKJV Help me, O Lord my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
- NASB ¶Help me, Lord my God; Save me according to Your mercy.
- NLT Help me, O Lord my God! Save me because of your unfailing love.
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Quick answer
David cries for help and salvation grounded in God's steadfast love. He looks entirely to the Lord his God for rescue.
Overview
The plea 'Help me' and 'Save me' rests again on God's 'loving kindness' (chesed), not on David's worth. This is the posture of saving faith, appealing to grace alone. It anticipates the gospel cry answered fully in Jesus, whose name means 'Yahweh saves' (Matthew 1:21).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 119:86All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
- Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
- Ps 57:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- Ps 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Ps 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
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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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