Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.
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.
- BSB Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
- 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!
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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 41:10Don’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.
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Ps 17:7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- Ps 108:6–13That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Ps 18:35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
- Ps 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
- Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Ps 74:11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
- Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- Jer 11:15What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
- Deut 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
- Deut 33:12About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”
- Deut 7:7–8Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
- Ps 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Ps 20:6Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
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