Psalms 51:12

David asks God to restore the joy of His salvation and uphold him with a willing spirit. He seeks renewed gladness and a steadfast will to obey.

Cross-references · 23

• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ps 13:5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
• Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• Luke 1:47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
• Ps 119:116–117Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
• Ps 35:9My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
• Jer 31:9–14They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Isa 57:17–18I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Ps 85:6–8Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
• Jer 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
• Rom 5:2–11through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Job 29:2–3“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
• Gal 4:6–7And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
• Ps 21:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
• Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
• Rom 14:4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
• Ps 19:13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
• Isa 49:13Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

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