Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
Parallel translations
- WEB Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- KJV Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
- NKJV Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand, O You who save those who trust in You From those who rise up against them.
- NASB Show Your wonderful faithfulness, Savior of those who take refuge at Your right hand From those who rise up against them.
- NLT Show me your unfailing love in wonderful ways. By your mighty power you rescue those who seek refuge from their enemies.
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Quick answer
David asks God to display his wondrous covenant love by saving those who take refuge in him. It matters because God's steadfast love is the ground of deliverance for those who trust him.
Overview
David appeals to God's marvelous lovingkindness (hesed), the One who saves all who seek refuge at his right hand from their foes. Salvation flows from God's covenant love rather than human merit. This steadfast love reaches its fullest display in Christ, the Savior of all who take refuge in him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 60:5Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
- Ps 5:11–12But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
- Ps 31:21Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
- Ps 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
- Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Ps 44:3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
- 2 Kgs 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Ps 10:12–16Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- 1 Sam 17:45–57But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- Acts 2:33Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
- 1 Sam 25:28–29Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
- 2 Kgs 19:22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Ps 78:12He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
- Rev 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
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