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But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms 5:7 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
  • BSB But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
  • NKJV But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; In fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple.
  • NASB But as for me, by Your abundant graciousness I will enter Your house, At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.
  • NLT Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house; I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

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Quick answer

By God's abundant lovingkindness, David comes to worship in reverent awe. Access to God rests on His mercy, not human merit.

Overview

In contrast to the wicked who cannot stand before God, David enters His house only 'in the abundance of your loving kindness.' He bows in reverent fear, recognizing that his welcome is owed entirely to God's covenant love. Believers approach with even greater confidence, for that lovingkindness is poured out fully in Christ, who opens the way into God's presence.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 132:7We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
  • Ps 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Heb 4:16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
  • Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
  • Heb 12:28–29Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
  • Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Dan 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
  • 1 Pet 1:17–19And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
  • Josh 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
  • 1 Kgs 8:29–30That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
  • Acts 9:31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
  • Luke 6:11–12And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
  • Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
  • Ps 52:8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
  • Ps 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
  • Isa 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  • Ps 69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
  • Ps 55:16As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
  • Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
  • 1 Kgs 8:35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
  • Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

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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 5:7 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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