Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
Parallel translations
- WEB You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
- KJV LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
- BSB O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
- NKJV Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.
- NLT Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.
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Quick answer
God's favor had made David's mountain stand firm, but when God hid His face, David was dismayed. It shows that all stability rests on God's presence.
Overview
David realizes his security came not from himself but from God's favor, and God's hiddenness left him troubled. The lesson corrects the presumption of the previous verse. God may withdraw the sense of His presence to teach His people to rely on Him alone.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ps 104:29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
- Ps 143:7Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
- 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.
- Job 10:12You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
- Ps 89:17For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
- Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Deut 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
- 1 Chr 17:26–27Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
- Ps 5:12For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
- Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
- Ps 10:1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- Job 30:26–31When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Ps 13:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
- Ps 102:10Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
- Ps 18:35–36You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
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