When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Parallel translations
- WEB When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
- BSB Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
- NKJV When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me.
- NASB For my father and my mother have forsaken me, But the Lord will take me up.
- NLT Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close.
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Quick answer
Even if his own father and mother abandon him, David trusts that the Lord will take him up. It assures believers of God's unfailing care when human support fails.
Overview
David names the closest human bonds to magnify God's superior faithfulness. The verse does not assume his parents had forsaken him but uses the most extreme case to highlight God's covenant loyalty. This points to the Father who receives the orphan and adopts us as sons through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
- Isa 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
- John 16:32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- Matt 10:36And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
- 2 Tim 4:16At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
- Ps 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
- Matt 10:21–22And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- John 9:35Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
- 2 Sam 16:11And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
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