The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
- KJV The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
- NKJV The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
- NASB The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Your faithfulness, Lord, is everlasting; Do not abandon the works of Your hands.
- NLT The Lord will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.
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Quick answer
David trusts God to complete His purpose for him, resting in everlasting love and asking God not to abandon His work.
Overview
David is confident that the Lord will fulfill what He has begun, grounding his hope in God's enduring loving kindness. He prays that God will not forsake the works of His own hands. This assurance that God finishes what He starts is echoed in the New Testament promise that He who began a good work in us will complete it in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Phil 1:6being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Ps 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
- 1 Th 5:24The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
- Isa 26:12O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
- Ps 136:1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Jer 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- 1 Pet 4:19So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
- Ps 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Isa 43:21The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
- Ps 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
- Rom 8:28–30And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- Ps 71:6–9I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
- 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- Isa 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- Ps 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- Rom 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Job 14:15You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
- Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
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