Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Parallel translations
- WEB Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
- BSB Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
- ESV Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
- NKJV Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
- NASB Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.
- NLT Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.
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David asks to be guided in God's truth and taught, resting in him as the God of salvation while waiting all day. Patient trust accompanies the prayer for guidance.
Overview
David seeks to be led in God's truth, grounding his request in God as the God of his salvation upon whom he waits continually. Guidance and salvation are bound together, for the God who saves also instructs. This anticipates Christ, who is the truth and who sends the Spirit to lead his people into all truth.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- Isa 30:18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ps 43:3–4O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
- John 14:26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
- John 16:13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
- Rev 7:17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
- Isa 54:13And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
- Ps 88:1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
- Ps 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
- Neh 9:20Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- Ps 107:7And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
- Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- Rom 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
- Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
- Prov 23:17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
- Ps 24:5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- Isa 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
- Eph 4:20–21But ye have not so learned Christ;
- Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
- Ps 119:26I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
- John 8:31–32Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
- Ps 22:2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
- Ps 119:97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
- 1 Jn 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
- John 6:45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
- Ps 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
- Ps 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
- Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Isa 35:8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
- Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
- Job 36:22Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
- Jer 31:33–34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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