Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

King James Version

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Holman Bible

But I will see Your face in righteousness;
when I awake, I will be satisfied with Your presence.

International Standard Version

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

A Conservative Version

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

American Standard Version

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with beholding thy form.

Amplified


As for me, I shall see Your face in righteousness;
I will be [fully] satisfied when I awake [to find myself] seeing Your likeness.

Darby Translation

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Julia Smith Translation

I in justice shall see thy face: I shall be satisfied in awaking with thine appearance.

King James 2000

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[By contrast,] I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied [seeing] your form.

Modern King James verseion

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

NET Bible

As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

New Heart English Bible

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

The Emphasized Bible

I, in righteousness, shall behold thy face, Shall be satisfied when awakened by a vision of thee.

Webster

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

World English Bible

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

Youngs Literal Translation

I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 17:15

References

Images Psalm 17:15

Prayers for Psalm 17:15

Context Readings

In The Shadow Of Your Wings

14 From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babes.
15 As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.


Cross References

Psalm 16:11

You will make known to me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Psalm 11:7

For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness;
The upright will behold His face.

Job 19:26-27

“Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live;
Their corpses will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

Joshua 24:15

If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Job 14:12

So man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens are no longer,
He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep.

Psalm 4:6-7

Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!

Psalm 5:7

But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house,
At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.

Psalm 36:8-9

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Psalm 65:4

How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.

Psalm 119:111

I have inherited Your testimonies forever,
For they are the joy of my heart.

Matthew 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Matthew 27:52-53

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Philippians 3:21

who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

1 John 3:2-3

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

Revelation 7:16-17

They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat;

Revelation 21:3-4

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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