Psalms 31:16

Amplified Bible

Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Let your favor shine on your servant. In your unfailing love, rescue me.

English Revised Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy lovingkindness.

Update Bible Version
Make your face to shine on your slave: Save me in your loving-kindness.

New Century Version
Show your kindness to me, your servant. Save me because of your love.

New English Translation
Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

Webster's Bible Translation
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

World English Bible
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your lovingkindness.

English Standard Version
Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make thou cleer thi face on thi seruaunt; Lord, make thou me saaf in thi merci;

Berean Standard Bible
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.

Contemporary English Version
Smile on me, your servant. Have pity and rescue me.

American Standard Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness.

Bible in Basic English
Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

Complete Jewish Bible
My times are in your hand; rescue me from my enemies' power, from those who persecute me.

Darby Translation
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

Easy-to-Read Version
Please welcome and accept your servant. Be kind to me and save me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My times are in Thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

King James Version (1611)
Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant: saue me for thy mercies sake.

New Life Bible
Make Your face shine upon Your servant. Save me in Your loving-kindness.

New Revised Standard
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast love.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant, and saue me through thy mercie.

George Lamsa Translation
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me through thy mercies.

Good News Translation
Look on your servant with kindness; save me in your constant love.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant, Save me in thy lovingkindness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-17) Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

Revised Standard Version
Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cause thy countenaunce to shine vppon thy seruaunt: saue me for thy mercies sake.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy.

Christian Standard Bible®
Make your face shine on your servant;save me by your faithful love.

Hebrew Names Version
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your lovingkindness.

King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

Lexham English Bible
Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love.

Literal Translation
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But my hope is in ye O LORDE, & I saye: thou art my God.

New American Standard Bible
Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your faithfulness.

New King James Version
Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me for Your mercies' sake.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Make Your face to shine upon Your slave;Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Contextual Overview

⁹Be gracious and compassionate to me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also. ¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And even my body has wasted away. ¹¹Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me on the street run from me. ¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. ¹³For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life. ¹⁴But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O LORD; I said, "You are my God." ¹⁵My times are in Your hands; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me. ¹⁶Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on You; Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). ¹⁸Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Make: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 30:7, Psalms 67:1, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:19, Numbers 6:25, Numbers 6:26, Daniel 9:17

save: Psalms 6:4, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 106:45, Daniel 9:9, Daniel 9:18, Romans 9:15, Romans 9:23, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 2:4-7

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:7 - for thy

Cross-References

Genesis 31:9
"Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.

Psalms 45:10
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]: Forget your people and your father's house;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant,.... In which he prays for the gracious presence of God, the manifestations of himself unto him, the discoveries of his love, the enjoyment of him in Christ, communion with him, the comforts of his Spirit, and joys of his salvation; see Numbers 6:25;

save me for thy mercies' sake; not for any merit and righteousness of his own, but for the sake of the grace and goodness of the Lord; which is putting salvation, whether temporal or spiritual, upon its right foot and foundation; which is never wrought out by, or is for works of righteousness done by men, but according to the grace and mercy of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant - That is, show me thy favor, or be kind and merciful to me. See the notes at Psalms 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 more pure or exalted than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 31:16. Make 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.