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¶How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have performed for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of mankind!
Psalms 31:19 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
  • KJV Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
  • BSB How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
  • NKJV Oh, how great is Your goodness, Which You have laid up for those who fear You, Which You have prepared for those who trust in You In the presence of the sons of men!
  • NLT How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

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Quick answer

David marvels at the great goodness God has stored up for those who fear and take refuge in Him. It exults in God's abundant grace.

Overview

God's goodness is pictured as a treasure laid up and openly worked out for His people in the sight of all. Reverent trust in God is met with overflowing kindness. This stored goodness anticipates the riches of grace lavished on believers in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
  • Isa 64:4For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
  • Lam 3:23–25They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • 1 Pet 1:4–5to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
  • Col 3:2–4Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
  • Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • Ps 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
  • Ps 126:2–3Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
  • 1 Jn 3:1–2See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
  • Ps 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
  • 2 Cor 5:5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
  • Ps 36:7–10How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
  • Ps 145:7–9They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
  • Ps 73:24–26You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
  • Isa 35:10The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
  • Ps 73:1A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • John 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
  • Isa 26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
  • Rom 11:22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
  • Ps 68:28Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.
  • Heb 10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
  • Num 23:23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
  • Acts 15:12All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 31:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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