Parallel Verses
Amplified
Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.
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.
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
15
My times are in Your hands;
Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me.
Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on You;
Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).
Cross References
Psalm 4:6
Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
Psalm 6:4
Return, O Lord, rescue my soul;
Save me because of Your [unfailing] steadfast love and mercy.
Psalm 80:3
Restore us, O God;
Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.
Numbers 6:25-26
The Lord make His face shine upon you [with favor],
And be gracious to you [surrounding you with lovingkindness];
Psalm 30:7
By Your favor and grace, O Lord, you have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and I was horrified.
Psalm 51:1
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 67:1
And make His face shine [with favor] on us— Selah.
Psalm 80:7
Restore us, O God of hosts;
And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.
Psalm 80:19
Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.
Psalm 106:45
And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercy and lovingkindness and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
Daniel 9:17-18
Now therefore, our God, listen to (heed) the prayer of Your servant
Romans 9:15
For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
Romans 9:23
And what if He has done so to make known the riches of His glory to the objects of His mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory,
Ephesians 1:6-7
to the praise of His glorious grace and favor, which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved [His Son, Jesus Christ].
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us,