Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.
Parallel translations
- KJV O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
- BSB Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
- NKJV Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant.
- NASB Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Grant Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant.
- NLT Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant; save me, the son of your servant.
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- Eph 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- Isa 40:29–31He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
- Ps 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 116:16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.
- Eph 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
- Ps 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
- Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
- Zech 10:12I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 119:94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
- Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- Ps 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
- Ps 28:7–8Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- Luke 1:38Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.
- Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
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