¶Help me, Lord my God; Save me according to Your mercy.
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:
- BSB Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
- 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,
- 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 of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
- Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
- Ps 57:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
- Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed 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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