Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
Parallel translations
- WEB Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
- KJV Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
- NKJV Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have caused me to hope.
- NASB ¶Remember the word to Your servant, In which You have made me hope.
- NLT Remember your promise to me; it is my only hope.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to remember His word, on which He caused him to hope. It matters because God's promises are the secure ground of the believer's hope.
Overview
Opening the Zayin stanza, the psalmist appeals to God to remember the promise that itself awakened his hope. His confidence rests not in himself but in God's reliable word. This hope grounded in God's promise is fulfilled in Christ, the yes to all God's promises, in whom the believer's hope is anchored.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- 2 Sam 7:25And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,
- Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Ps 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
- Ps 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
- Ps 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Ps 71:14But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
- Ps 119:74May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
- Isa 62:6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- Gen 32:9Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Ps 119:43Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
- Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- 2 Sam 5:2Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
- Ps 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- Ps 105:2Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
- Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
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