Psalms 31:16

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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.

Amplified Bible
Make Your face shine upon 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

⁹ Have mercy on me, Lord , for I am in distress. Tears blur my eyes. My body and soul are withering away. ¹⁰ I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. ¹¹ I am scorned by all my enemies and despised by my neighbors— even my friends are afraid to come near me. When they see me on the street, they run the other way. ¹² I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot. ¹³ I have heard the many rumors about me, and I am surrounded by terror. My enemies conspire against me, plotting to take my life. ¹⁴ But I am trusting you, O Lord , saying, "You are my God!" ¹⁵ My future is in your hands. Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly. ¹⁶ Let your favor shine on your servant. In your unfailing love, rescue me. ¹⁷ Don't let me be disgraced, O Lord , for I call out to you for help. Let the wicked be disgraced; let them lie silent in the grave. ¹⁸ Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.

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
In this way, God has taken your father's animals and given them to me.

Psalms 45:10
Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away.

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.