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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- BSB Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
- 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 60:5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
- Ps 5:11–12But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
- Ps 31:21Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
- Ps 20:6Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
- Isa 41:10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Ps 44:3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
- 2 Kgs 19:34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- Ps 10:12–16Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
- 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
- Exod 15:6Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- 1 Sam 17:45–57Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
- Acts 2:33Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
- 1 Sam 25:28–29I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
- 2 Kgs 19:22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
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