For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
- BSB For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
- 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 David’s sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
- 2 Chr 6:42O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
- 2 Kgs 19:34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- 1 Kgs 11:12–13Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
- 1 Kgs 11:34Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
- Ps 84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
- Ps 89:38–39But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
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