Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
Parallel translations
- WEB Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
- KJV Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
- NKJV Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; O Lord, revive me according to Your justice.
- NASB Hear my voice according to Your faithfulness; Revive me, Lord, according to Your judgments.
- NLT In your faithful love, O Lord, hear my cry; let me be revived by following your regulations.
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Quick answer
He asks God to hear him according to His loving kindness and revive him by His ordinances. He appeals to God's covenant love, not his own merit.
Overview
The psalmist grounds his plea in God's 'loving kindness' (covenant steadfast love), the only sure basis for being heard. He longs to be 'revived,' restored to spiritual vitality through God's just ordinances. This dependence on God's mercy for renewal finds its fullest answer in the new life given through Christ.
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Cross-references · 11
- Isa 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
- 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 55:2Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
- Ps 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
- Ps 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
- Ps 5:2–3Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.
- Ps 119:156Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Ps 64:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
- Ps 119:154Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
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