Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Holman Bible
save me by Your faithful love.
International Standard Version
May your face shine on your servant; in your gracious love, deliver me.
A Conservative Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant. Save me in thy loving kindness.
American Standard Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness.
Amplified
Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
Darby Translation
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.
Julia Smith Translation
Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy.
King James 2000
Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love.
Modern King James verseion
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercy's sake.
NET Bible
Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
New Heart English Bible
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
The Emphasized Bible
Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant, Save me in thy lovingkindness.
Webster
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 loving kindness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
15 The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me. 16 Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour. 17 Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
Cross References
Psalm 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Psalm 6:4
Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
Psalm 80:3
Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Numbers 6:25-26
May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:
Psalm 51:1
Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Psalm 67:1
May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)
Psalm 80:7
Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalm 80:19
Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalm 106:45
And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
Daniel 9:9
With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
Daniel 9:17-18
And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Romans 9:23
And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
Ephesians 1:6-7
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,