Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.
Parallel translations
- KJV Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
- BSB Show us Your loving devotion, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.
- NKJV Show us Your mercy, Lord, And grant us Your salvation.
- NASB Show us Your mercy, Lord, And grant us Your salvation.
- NLT Show us your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.
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Quick answer
The prayer asks God to show His covenant love and grant His salvation. Both mercy and deliverance are sought as gifts of grace.
Overview
The pairing of 'loving kindness' (hesed) and 'salvation' captures the covenant relationship at the heart of the psalm. The people seek not what they deserve but God's steadfast love. This longing for salvation reaches its fulfillment in Jesus, whose very name means 'the LORD saves' and who embodies God's loving kindness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Ps 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
- Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
- Jer 42:12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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