Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
- BSB Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- NKJV Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.
- NASB Let me hear Your faithfulness in the morning, For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul.
- NLT Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you.
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Quick answer
David asks to hear God's loving kindness in the morning and to know the way he should walk. It seeks both assurance of love and guidance for life.
Overview
Trusting in God, David asks for fresh assurance of God's steadfast love each morning and for direction in the path of obedience. Lifting up his soul, he entrusts himself wholly to God. This morning mercy points to the daily renewal of grace in Christ, whose lovingkindnesses never cease (Lamentations 3:22-23).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- Ps 25:4–5Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
- Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- Ps 46:5God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Ps 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
- Ps 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
- Ps 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
- Ps 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
- Lam 3:41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- Ps 25:1–2By David. To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
- Ps 30:5For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Gen 32:24–29Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
- Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
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