Answer my prayers, O Lord, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful.
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.
- BSB Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- 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,
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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.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 109:21But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
- Ps 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 63:3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
- Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
- Ps 86:15–16But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Ps 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
- Isa 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Ps 36:7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
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