Psalms 31:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

Psalms 31:16 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 4:6
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 6:4
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Psalms 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Romans 9:15
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

In the Ps. 31:1-8 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, I. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble, and need thy mercy.” The rememb…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

14-18. In his profession of trust he includes the terms of the prayer expressing it.