Psalms 31:7

David rejoices in God's steadfast love because God has seen his affliction and known his soul's troubles. It celebrates God's intimate care in suffering.

Cross-references · 23

• Isa 49:13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• Ps 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
• John 10:27–30My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• Isa 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
• Gal 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
• Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
• Lam 3:50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
• Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
• Ps 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
• Ps 142:3Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
• Ps 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
• Ps 9:13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
• Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• Ps 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
• Neh 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
• Ps 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
• Ps 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
• Jer 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
• 1 Cor 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
• Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

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