16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
16 Make thy face H6440 to shine H215 upon thy servant: H5650 save H3467 me for thy mercies' H2617 sake.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness.
16 Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.
16 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
16 Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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Commentary on Psalms 31 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 31
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul; some passages in it agree particularly to the narrow escapes he had, at Keilah (1 Sa. 23:13), then in the wilderness of Maon, when Saul marched on one side of the hill and he on the other, and, soon after, in the cave in the wilderness of En-gedi; but that it was penned upon any of those occasions we are not told. It is a mixture of prayers, and praises, and professions of confidence in God, all which do well together and are helpful to one another.
To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Psa 31:1-8
Faith and prayer must go together. He that believes, let his pray-I believe, therefore I have spoken: and he that prays, let him believe, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. We have both here.
Psa 31:9-18
In the foregoing verses David had appealed to God's righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe,
Psa 31:19-24
We have three things in these verses:-
In singing this we should animate ourselves and one another to proceed and persevere in our Christian course, whatever threatens us, and whoever frowns upon us.