Psalms 31:16
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
In Context
15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Cross References
Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD. May your blessing be on your people. Selah.
Psalms 6:4Return, LORD. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:19Turn us again, LORD God of Hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.
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 →