Psalms 31:16
Be kind to me and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
In Context
15My whole life [MTY] is in your hands; save me from my enemies, from those who pursue me.
Cross References
Psalms 3:8Yahweh, you are the one who saves your people from their enemies. Yahweh, bless your people! (Think about that!)
Psalms 6:4Yahweh, please come and rescue me. Save me because you faithfully love me.
Psalms 51:1O God, be merciful to me, because you love me faithfully; because you are very merciful, erase the record of the ways that I disobeyed you!
Psalms 80:3God, cause our nation to be strong like it was before; be kind to us [IDM] in order that we may be saved from our enemies.
Psalms 80:19Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven, restore us; be kind to us in order that we may be rescued from our enemies!
Daniel 9:9Although we have rebelled against you, you act mercifully toward us and you are willing/ready to forgive us.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19
Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →