Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
Parallel translations
- WEB So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
- KJV That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
- NKJV That Your beloved may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and hear me.
- NASB That Your beloved may be rescued, Save us with Your right hand, and answer us!
- NLT Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.
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Quick answer
David prays that God's beloved people be delivered by his powerful right hand. It appeals to God's saving strength for the sake of those he loves.
Overview
David asks God to save with his right hand so that his beloved ones may be rescued. The plea rests on God's affection for his people, not their merit. This anticipates the deliverance God works for his beloved in Christ, in whom believers are loved and saved.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Ps 17:7Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
- Ps 108:6–13Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
- Ps 18:35You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.
- Ps 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
- Ps 74:11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
- Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
- Jer 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
- Deut 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
- Deut 33:12Concerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”
- Deut 7:7–8The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
- Ps 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- Ps 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
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