I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will walk before Yahweh 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Luke 1:75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
- 1 Kgs 9:4And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
- Isa 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
- Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- 1 Kgs 8:25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
- 1 Kgs 2:4That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
- Ps 61:7He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
- Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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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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