May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
- KJV Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
- NKJV Let Your mercies come also to me, O Lord— Your salvation according to Your word.
- NASB ¶May Your favor also come to me, Lord, Your salvation according to Your word;
- NLT Lord, give me your unfailing love, the salvation that you promised me.
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Quick answer
The psalmist prays that God's steadfast love and salvation would come to him according to His promise. It matters because God's saving mercy is grounded in His faithful word.
Overview
Opening the Waw stanza, the psalmist asks for God's covenant love and salvation to reach him just as God promised. He grounds his plea on God's word rather than his own worth. This longing for promised salvation is answered in Christ, in whom God's steadfast love and saving grace fully come to His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Ps 119:76–77May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
- Ps 119:58I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
- Luke 2:28–32Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying:
- Ps 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Ps 106:4–5Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
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