For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
- KJV For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
- NKJV For Your servant David’s sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed.
- NASB ¶For the sake of Your servant David, Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.
- NLT For the sake of your servant David, do not reject the king you have anointed.
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Quick answer
For David's sake, they ask God not to reject His anointed king. It appeals to God's covenant loyalty to David and his royal line.
Overview
The petition pleads that, on account of His servant David, God would not turn away the face of His anointed one. The prayer rests on God's covenant commitment to the Davidic king. This points beyond any earthly king to Christ, the Anointed One whom God never rejects.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 1 Kgs 15:4–5Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
- 2 Chr 6:42O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
- 2 Kgs 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- 1 Kgs 11:12–13Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kgs 11:34Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
- Ps 84:9Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.
- Ps 89:38–39Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
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