He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- KJV Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- NKJV Who remembered us in our lowly state, For His mercy endures forever;
- NASB ¶Who remembered us in our lowliness, For His faithfulness is everlasting,
- NLT He remembered us in our weakness. His faithful love endures forever.
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God remembered His people in their low estate, and His love endures forever.
Overview
The psalm turns to God's ongoing mercy, remembering His people when they were brought low. He does not forget the afflicted but acts on their behalf. This remembering love is the heart of the gospel, for God remembered a fallen world and sent His Son to redeem it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
- Luke 1:48For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.
- Ps 116:6The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.
- Deut 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Ps 113:7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
- Ezek 16:3–13and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ps 72:12–14For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- Ps 102:17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
- Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
- 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.
- Ps 106:43–45Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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