Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Parallel translations
- WEB Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- BSB He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
- 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
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- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Luke 1:48For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
- Ps 116:6The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
- Deut 32:36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
- Ps 113:7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
- Ps 142:6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
- Ezek 16:3–13And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
- Ps 72:12–14For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Ps 102:17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
- Luke 1:52He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
- Gen 8:1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Ps 106:43–45Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
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