So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Parallel translations
- WEB So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
- BSB Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.
- NKJV Then we will not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
- NASB Then we will not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
- NLT Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
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Quick answer
If God revives them, the people vow they will not turn away but will call on His name. Restoration and renewed faithfulness are joined together.
Overview
The people pledge covenant loyalty contingent on God's reviving grace, recognizing they cannot turn back to Him in their own strength. True revival is God's work that produces renewed worship and faithfulness. This anticipates the gospel pattern, where God first gives life and the redeemed respond by calling on His name (cf. Eph. 2:4-5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 119:154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
- Phil 2:12–13Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
- John 6:66–69From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- Ps 119:107I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Heb 10:38–39Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
- Song 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
- Eph 2:1–5And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Ps 79:13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
- Ps 85:6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
- Ps 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- Ps 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- Ps 119:156Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
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