New English Translation
Psalms 31:16
16Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
Psalms 31:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
- New International Version (NIV)Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me for Your mercies’ sake.
Context of Psalms 31:16
14But I trust in you, O Lord! I declare, “You are my God!” 15You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me. Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness! 17O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave! 18May lying lips be silenced – lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
Read all of Psalms 31Psalms 31:16 word by word
הָאִ֣ירָה פָ֭נֶיךָ עַל־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ ה֖וֹשִׁיעֵ֣נִי בְחַסְדֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 31:16
- Psalms 4:6Many say, “Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, Lord!
- Psalms 30:7O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
- Psalms 67:1May God show us his favor and bless us! May he smile on us! (Selah)
- Psalms 80:3O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
- Numbers 6:25The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
- Daniel 9:17“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.
- Psalms 6:4Relent, Lord, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
- Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
- Psalms 106:45He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
- Daniel 9:9Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
- Romans 9:15For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
- Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
Commentaries on Psalms 31:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant - Only let me know that thou art reconciled to and pleased with me, and then, come what will, all must be well. Save me for thy mercies' sake - Literally, Save me in thy mercy.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant - That is, show me thy favor, or be kind and merciful to me. See the notes at Psalm 4:6. Save me for thy mercies‘ sake - On account of thy mercy; or that thy mercy may be manifested. This is always a just ground of appeal to God by a sinner or a sufferer, that God would make our sins and trials an “occasion” for displaying his own character. There are, indeed, other grounds of appeal; but there is no one that is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. Herein he was a type of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his afflictions were merited by his own sins, but Christ suffered for ours. David's friends durst not give him any assistance. Let us not think it strange if thus deserted, but make sure of a Friend in heaven who will not fail. God will be sure to order and dispose all for the best, to all those who commit their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-18Hope does not trust weak and unreliable human beings. It trusts only in the Lord. The suffering person places his life in God’s hands while he waits for the Lord to bring justice.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1814-18. In his profession of trust he includes the terms of the prayer expressing it.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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