I bow before your holy Temple as I worship. I praise your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness; for your promises are backed by all the honor of your name.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
- KJV I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
- BSB I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- NKJV I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
- NASB I will bow down toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name for Your mercy and Your truth; For You have made Your word great according to all Your name.
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Quick answer
David worships toward God's temple, thanking Him for His love and faithfulness, which He has exalted with His word.
Overview
Bowing toward the holy place, David praises God's steadfast love and truth, the twin pillars of His covenant character. He marvels that God has magnified His word and His name above all. This reverence for God's word, which never fails, finds its fullest expression in Christ, the Word made flesh and the truth of God.
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- Matt 5:18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
- Ps 56:10In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
- Isa 42:21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
- 1 Kgs 8:29–30that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
- Ps 56:4In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
- Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Ps 115:1Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
- Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 100:4–5Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
- Ps 36:5–6Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Ps 99:9Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
- Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
- Isa 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
- Dan 6:10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
- Ps 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- John 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
- Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- Luke 1:68–72“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
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