I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
- BSB I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.
- NKJV I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.
- NASB I will give thanks to You, for You have answered me, And You have become my salvation.
- NLT I thank you for answering my prayer and giving me victory!
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Quick answer
He thanks God for answering him and becoming his salvation. It matters because answered prayer leads to heartfelt thanksgiving.
Overview
The psalmist gives personal thanks because God heard him and proved to be his deliverance. Salvation is experienced as God himself acting on his behalf. This testimony of God becoming our salvation finds its deepest meaning in Christ, in whom God answers and saves his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
- Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Isa 49:8Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
- Ps 118:14Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Ps 69:33–34For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
- Ps 22:23–24You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
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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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