Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.
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.
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 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 hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. 16 Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy. 17 Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.
Cross References
Psalm 4:6
There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.
Psalm 6:4
Return, O Jehovah, return; deliver my soul; save me for Your mercy's sake.
Psalm 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!
Numbers 6:25-26
Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
Psalm 30:7
O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.
Psalm 51:1
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 67:1
To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause His face to shine on us. Selah.
Psalm 80:7
Turn us again, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalm 80:19
Turn us again, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 106:45
and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him.
Daniel 9:17-18
And now, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
Romans 9:15
For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Romans 9:23
and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;
Ephesians 1:6-7
to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us