My God of mercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.
Parallel translations
- WEB My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
- KJV The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
- BSB My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.
- NASB My God in His faithfulness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my enemies.
- NLT In his unfailing love, my God will stand with me. He will let me look down in triumph on all my enemies.
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Quick answer
David is confident that God in his steadfast love will go before him and grant him victory. It rests assurance entirely on God's covenant mercy.
Overview
David trusts that God's loving kindness will lead the way and bring him through to triumph over his foes. The victory he anticipates is God's gift, not his own achievement. Such confidence flows from God's faithful, covenant love, fully revealed in Christ who secures our final victory.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
- Ps 59:17To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
- Ps 54:7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
- Ps 21:3For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
- Ps 54:5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Ps 92:11My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
- 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Ps 91:8You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.
- Luke 19:41–44When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
- Ps 112:8His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
- Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Jer 17:16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
- 2 Sam 1:11–12Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
- Ps 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
- 2 Sam 1:17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
- Ps 79:8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
- 1 Th 4:15For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Sam 26:10David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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