I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
- BSB I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
- NKJV I will walk before the Lord In the land of the living.
- NASB I shall walk before the Lord In the land of the living.
- NLT And so I walk in the Lord’s presence as I live here on earth!
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Quick answer
The rescued psalmist resolves to walk before Yahweh in the land of the living. It matters because deliverance leads to a life lived consciously before God.
Overview
Having been spared death, he commits to a life of faithful walking in God's presence among the living. Salvation issues in grateful obedience, not mere relief. This walk before God is the believer's calling, empowered by union with the risen Christ who is our life.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Luke 1:75In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
- 1 Kgs 9:4As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
- Isa 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- 1 Kgs 8:25Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
- 1 Kgs 2:4Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
- Ps 61:7He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
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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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