Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercy's sake.
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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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
15 You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me. 16 Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness! 17 O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!
Cross References
Psalm 4:6
Many say, "Who can show us anything good?" Smile upon us, Lord!
Psalm 6:4
Relent, Lord, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
Psalm 80:3
O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Numbers 6:25-26
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
Psalm 30:7
O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
Psalm 51:1
For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
Psalm 67:1
For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song. May God show us his favor and bless us! May he smile on us! (Selah)
Psalm 80:7
O God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Psalm 80:19
O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Psalm 106:45
He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
Daniel 9:9
Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
Daniel 9:17-18
"So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.
Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Romans 9:23
And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory --
Ephesians 1:6-7
to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,