Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He shall dwell before God forever: mercy and truth a portion shall guard him.
New American Standard Bible
Appoint
King James Version
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Holman Bible
appoint faithful love and truth to guard him.
International Standard Version
May he be enthroned before God forever; Appoint your gracious love and truth to guard him.
A Conservative Version
He shall abide before God forever. O prepare loving kindness and truth that they may preserve him.
American Standard Version
He shall abide before God for ever: Oh prepare lovingkindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
Amplified
He will sit enthroned forever before [the face of] God;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth to watch over and preserve him.
Bible in Basic English
May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.
Darby Translation
He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
King James 2000
He shall abide before God forever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
May he live forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.
Modern King James verseion
He shall abide before God forever; prepare mercy and truth to preserve him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that he may dwell before God for ever. O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
NET Bible
May he reign forever before God! Decree that your loyal love and faithfulness should protect him.
New Heart English Bible
He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
The Emphasized Bible
Let him retain his seat age-abidingly before God, Appoint that, lovingkindness and faithfulness, my watch over him!
Webster
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
World English Bible
He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
Youngs Literal Translation
He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint -- they keep him.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 61:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Security In God
6 Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years as generation and generation. 7 He shall dwell before God forever: mercy and truth a portion shall guard him. 8 Thus will I play on the harp to thy name forever, to repay me my vows day by day.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 40:11
Thou wilt not, O Jehovah, shut up thy compassions from me: thy mercy and thy truth shall always guard me.
Psalm 41:12
And I, in mine integrity thou didst support me, and thou wilt set me before thy face forever.
Genesis 24:27
And he will say, Praised be Jehovah, God of lord Abraham, who let not go his kindness and his truth from my lord: I in the way, Jehovah led me to the house of my lord's brother.
Genesis 32:10
I was little from all the kindness and from all the truth which thou didst to thy servant; for with my rod I passed over this Jordan, and now I became into two camps.
Psalm 43:3
Send forth thy light and thy truth; they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mountain and to thy tents.
Psalm 57:3
He will send from the heavens and he will save me; he rebuked him panting after me. Silence. God will send forth his mercy and his truth.
Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and truth shall guard the king: and his throne he upheld in mercy.
Isaiah 9:6-7
For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace.
Micah 7:20
Thou wilt give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which thou didst swear to our fathers from the days of old.
Luke 1:33
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luke 1:54-55
He succored Israel his servant, remembering mercy;
Hebrews 7:21-25
(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us: