Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
Parallel translations
- KJV Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
- BSB Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
- NKJV Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And teach me Your statutes.
- NASB Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And teach me Your statutes.
- NLT Look upon me with love; teach me your decrees.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Num 6:25–26Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
- Ps 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
- Ps 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Ps 80:19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
- Ps 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
- Job 34:32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
- Rev 22:4–5They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
- Ps 119:26I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
- Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
- Ps 80:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
- Ps 119:12Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
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