Psalms 31:16

Contemporary English Version

Smile on me, your servant. Have pity and rescue me.

Parallel Translations

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ Have pity, Lord ! I am hurting and almost blind. My whole body aches. ¹⁰ I have known only sorrow all my life long, and I suffer year after year. I am weak from sin, and my bones are limp. ¹¹ My enemies insult me. Neighbors are even worse, and I disgust my friends. People meet me on the street, and they turn and run. ¹² I am completely forgotten like someone dead. I am merely a broken dish. ¹³ I hear the crowds whisper, "Everyone is afraid!" They are plotting and scheming to murder me. ¹⁴ But I trust you, Lord , and I claim you as my God. ¹⁵ My life is in your hands. Save me from enemies who hunt me down. ¹⁶ Smile on me, your servant. Have pity and rescue me. ¹⁷ I pray only to you. Don't disappoint me. Disappoint my cruel enemies until they lie silent in their graves. ¹⁸ Silence those proud liars! Make them stop bragging and insulting your people.

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
That's how God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.

Psalms 45:10
Bride of the king, listen carefully to me. Forget your own people and your father's family.

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.