Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
New American Standard Bible
Your
King James Version
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Holman Bible
Lord, Your love is eternal;
do not abandon the work of Your hands.
International Standard Version
The LORD will complete what his purpose is for me. LORD, your gracious love is eternal; do not abandon your personal work in me. To the Music Director: A Davidic Song
A Conservative Version
LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O LORD, [is] forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
American Standard Version
Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Amplified
The Lord will accomplish that which concerns me;
Your [unwavering] lovingkindness, O Lord, endures forever—
Do not abandon the works of Your own hands.
Darby Translation
Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands.
King James 2000
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures forever: forsake not the works of your own hands.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh accomplishes [things] for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love [endures] forever; do not abandon the works of your hands.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah will perfect His work in me; Your mercy, O Jehovah, endures forever; do not forsake the work of Your own hands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD shall make good his loving-kindness toward me. Yea, thy mercy, O LORD, endureth forever; despise not then the works of thine own hands.
NET Bible
The Lord avenges me. O Lord, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!
New Heart English Bible
The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, will carry through my cause, - O Yahweh! thy lovingkindness, is age-abiding, The works of thine own hands, do not thou desert.
Webster
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands.
World English Bible
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 138:8
Prayers for Psalm 138:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Thankful Heart
7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation. 8 The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 57:2
I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.
Philippians 1:6
For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
Job 10:3
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Job 10:8
Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
Job 14:15
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Psalm 71:6-9
You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.
Psalm 71:17-18
O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.
Psalm 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psalm 136:1
O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Isaiah 26:12
Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Isaiah 43:21
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
Jeremiah 32:39-40
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
John 15:2
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
Romans 8:28-30
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.
1 Peter 1:3-5
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 4:19
For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ: