Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you; give justice to those with honest hearts.
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.
- BSB Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your 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.
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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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- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
- Heb 8:11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
- Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Ps 97:10–11You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 9:10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- Ps 143:1–2A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Ps 18:24–25Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- Ps 94:14–15For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
- Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
- Isa 51:6–8Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Ps 7:8–10Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
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