Turn to me and be gracious to me, As is right for those who love Your name.
Parallel translations
- WEB Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- KJV Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
- BSB Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- NKJV Look upon me and be merciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.
- NLT Come and show me your mercy, as you do for all who love your name.
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Quick answer
He asks God to turn to him and show mercy, as He does to those who love His name. He appeals to God's customary grace toward His own.
Overview
The psalmist requests God's gracious attention and mercy, appealing to the way God habitually treats those who love His name. He counts himself among that company and pleads for the same favor. This confidence in God's customary mercy toward His people is fulfilled in Christ, through whom God shows steadfast love to all who call on His name (Rom. 10:12-13; Ps. 25:14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 119:124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
- Ps 106:4Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
- 1 Sam 1:11She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
- Ps 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- Ps 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Exod 4:31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- 2 Sam 16:12It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
- Isa 63:7–9I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- 2 Th 1:6–7Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
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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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