Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
- KJV O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
- NKJV Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
- NASB ¶Prolong Your mercy to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright of heart.
- NLT Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you; give justice to those with honest hearts.
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Quick answer
David prays that God would continue His loving kindness and righteousness to those who know Him and are upright in heart. He asks that grace persist toward God's own.
Overview
Having praised God's love, David turns it into petition, asking that this steadfast love and righteousness keep flowing to those who know Him. True knowledge of God is joined with an upright heart. Such perseverance of grace toward His people is guaranteed in the gospel, for those whom God loves in Christ He loves to the end (John 13:1).
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Cross-references · 16
- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
- Heb 8:11No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
- Jer 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
- Ps 97:10–11Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
- 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Ps 143:1–2A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
- Ps 18:24–25So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
- Ps 94:14–15For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- Jer 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Isa 51:6–8Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
- Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Ps 7:8–10The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- John 15:9–10As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
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