Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
Parallel translations
- WEB Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- KJV Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
- NKJV Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
- NASB ¶Answer me, Lord, for Your mercy is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,
- NLT Answer my prayers, O Lord, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful.
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Quick answer
David appeals to God's good lovingkindness and abundant mercy, asking him to answer and turn toward him. It grounds prayer in God's compassionate character.
Overview
David bases his plea not on his own merit but on the Lord's good covenant love and many tender mercies. He asks God to turn his attention toward him in his need. This reliance on God's mercy rather than human worth is the heart of the gospel, where we approach the Father confident in his abundant compassion shown in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
- Ps 25:16Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
- Ps 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
- Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Ps 26:11But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
- Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- Ps 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- Ps 86:15–16But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Ps 51:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Isa 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
- Ps 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
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