Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercy's sake.
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 King James verseion
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
15 My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16 Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercy's sake. 17 Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.
Cross References
Psalm 4:6
There be many that say, "Who will show us any good? LORD lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."
Psalm 6:4
Turn thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalm 80:3
Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
Numbers 6:25-26
The LORD make his face shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee.
Psalm 30:7
But as soon as thou didst turn thy face from me, I was troubled.
Psalm 51:1
{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.
Psalm 67:1
{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, a Psalm and song} God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and show us the light of his countenance. Selah.
Psalm 80:7
Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
Psalm 80:19
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
Psalm 106:45
He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;
Daniel 9:9
But unto thee O LORD our God, pertaineth mercy and forgiveness. As for us, we are gone back from him,
Daniel 9:17-18
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his intercession. O let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste.
Romans 9:15
For he saith to Moses, "I will show mercy to whom I show mercy: And will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Romans 9:23
that he might declare the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared unto glory:
Ephesians 1:6-7
to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us,