Bible Strands
Psalms 130:7
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The psalmist shifts from personal waiting (v. 6) to a direct address of Israel as a collective, issuing a communal exhortation to hope in Yahweh. It sits between the image of watchmen awaiting dawn and the promise of redemption from all iniquity (v. 8).
The words — חֶסֶד (chesed, H2617) is rendered "loving devotion" in the BSB but literally means covenant loyalty—the faithfulness Yahweh owes by virtue of His own binding commitment, not a feeling He may or may not feel.
The thread — The pairing of covenant loyalty with redemption in abundance echoes Ephesians 1:7 ("redemption through His blood… according to the riches of His grace") and Revelation 5:9, where redemption is grounded in what Christ has done rather than what the redeemed have earned.
Why it lands — It removes the reader from the equation: hope is directed at Yahweh's character, not at one's own moral progress, and the abundance of redemption is His to dispense, not something to be negotiated.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
Cross-references
- Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
- Psalms 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
- Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- Psalms 86:15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Psalms 86:5 For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- 1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- Psalms 131:3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
- Romans 8:24 For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
- Psalms 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.