Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
- KJV Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
- NKJV Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy, And teach me Your statutes.
- NASB Deal with Your servant according to Your graciousness, And teach me Your statutes.
- NLT I am your servant; deal with me in unfailing love, and teach me your decrees.
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Quick answer
He asks God to deal with him according to His covenant love and to teach him His statutes. He seeks both mercy and instruction from God.
Overview
The psalmist pleads for treatment grounded in God's loving kindness rather than strict desert, joined with a request to be taught the statutes. Mercy and discipleship are sought together. This appeal to covenant love anticipates the gospel, where God deals with sinners according to grace in Christ and teaches them by His Spirit (Eph. 2:4-5; John 14:26).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 119:12Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
- Dan 9:18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Ps 103:10He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
- Ps 119:76–77May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
- Ps 130:7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
- 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 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Ps 51:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Ps 119:26I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
- Neh 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- Ps 79:8Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
- Ps 119:41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
- Ps 143:10–12Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- Ps 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
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