He will send help from heaven to rescue me, disgracing those who hound me. Interlude My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness.
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- WEB He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- KJV He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
- BSB He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- NKJV He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.
- NASB He will send from heaven and save me; He rebukes the one who tramples upon me. Selah God will send His favor and His truth.
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Quick answer
God will send from heaven to save David and rebuke his pursuer, sending forth his love and truth. It affirms God's active deliverance.
Overview
David expects heaven's help to rescue him and silence the one chasing him. God dispatches his loving kindness and truth as if they were rescuing messengers. The pairing of love and truth highlights the character of the God who saves, ultimately revealed in Christ, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).
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- Ps 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
- Ps 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
- Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- Ps 144:5–7Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
- Ps 56:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
- Ps 61:7He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
- Matt 28:2–6Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Mic 3:2–3You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Ps 18:6–50In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
- Num 23:24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
- Job 31:31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
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