Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

New American Standard Bible

Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him,
That he may see His face with joy,
And He may restore His righteousness to man.

King James Version

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Holman Bible

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.
That man will see His face with a shout of joy,
and God will restore his righteousness to him.

International Standard Version

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

A Conservative Version

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

American Standard Version

He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.

Amplified


“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,
So that he looks at His face with joy;
For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].

Bible in Basic English

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

Darby Translation

He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.

King James 2000

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

Modern King James verseion

he shall pray to God, and He will be gracious to him; and he shall see His face with joy, for He will restore to man his righteousness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if he submit himself unto God, he is gracious, and showeth him his countenance joyfully, and rewardeth man for his righteousness.

NET Bible

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

New Heart English Bible

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

The Emphasized Bible

He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.

Webster

He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.

World English Bible

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

Youngs Literal Translation

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He shall pray
עתר 
`athar 
Usage: 20

אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

and he will be favourable
רצה 
Ratsah 
Usage: 56

unto him and he shall see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

with joy
תּרוּעה 
T@ruw`ah 
Usage: 36

for he will render
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

References

Context Readings

A Third Way God Warns People

25 His flesh revived above a youth: he shall turn back to the days of his childhood. 26 He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice. 27 He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;

Cross References

Psalm 50:15

And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.

Numbers 6:25-26

Jehovah shall make his face shine upon thee and shall compassionate thee.

1 Samuel 26:23

And Jehovah will turn back to a man his justice and his truth; for Jehovah gave thee this day in hand, and I would not stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's Messiah.

2 Kings 20:2-5

And he will turn his face to the wall and pray, saying,

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer, and he was entreated for him and all his sin, and his transgression, and the places where he built in them heights, and he set up statues and carved images before his humbling: behold them written upon the words of the seers.

Job 22:26-27

For then upon the Almighty shalt thou delight thyself, and thou shalt lift up thy face to God.

Job 34:11

For the work of man shall he recompense to him, and a man shall find himself according to his way.

Job 34:28

To cause the cry of the poor one to come to him, and he will hear the cry of the humble.

Job 42:8-9

And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.

Psalm 4:6-7

Many saying, Who will cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy face, O Jehovah.

Psalm 6:1-9

To the overseer upon the stringed instruments upon the octave, chanting of David. O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt thou correct me, and not in thy wrath wilt thou chastise me.

Psalm 16:11

Thou wilt cause me to know the way of life: abundance of joys with thy face; favors in thy right hand forever.

Psalm 18:20

Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice, according to the cleanness of my hands he will turn back to me.

Psalm 28:1-2

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit

Psalm 28:6

Praised be Jehovah, for he heard the voice of my supplications

Psalm 30:5

For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.

Psalm 30:7-11

O Jehovah, in thy good will thou didst cause strength to stand for my mountain: thou didst cover thy face, I was in trepidation.

Psalm 41:8-11

A word of Belial will press upon him: and when he lay down, he will not add to rise up.

Psalm 62:12

And to thee, O Jehovah, mercy: for thou wilt recompense to each according to his work.

Psalm 67:1

To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: chanting of the song. God will compassionate us and bless us; his face will enlighten us. Silence.

Psalm 91:15

He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.

Psalm 116:1-6

I Loved, for Jehovah will hear the voice of my supplication.

Proverbs 24:12

If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.

Isaiah 30:19

For the people shall dwell in Zion in Jerusalem: weeping, thou shalt not weep: pitying, he will pity thee at the voice. of thy cry; for in his hearing, he answered thee.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not

Jonah 2:2-7

And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.

Matthew 10:41-42

He receiving a prophet in a prophet's name, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he receiving the just in the name of the just, shall take the reward of the just

Acts 2:28

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with gladness with thy face.

Acts 9:11

And the Lord to him, Having risen, go thou to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays,

Hebrews 11:26

Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.

Jude 1:24

And to him able to watch yourselves from falling, and to place blameless before his glory with transport of joy,

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