Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Parallel translations
- WEB Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
- BSB Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
- 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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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 mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
- Ps 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
- Ps 55:2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
- Ps 109:21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- Ps 5:2–3Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
- Ps 119:156Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Ps 69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
- Ps 64:1Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Ps 119:154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
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