Bible Strands
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist pleads to Yahweh while trapped by rising waters and the threat of the pit, immediately before repeating the demand for a swift response in verse 17.
The words — חַסְדֶּךָ (chas-dekha) = covenant loyalty/your, and רַחֲמֶיךָ (ra-chamekha) = compassion<s>/your.
The thread — The plea to turn toward the distressed speaker appears in Psalms 25:16, while the appeal to divine kindness for the sake of God's name runs through Psalms 109:21.
Why it lands — The text grounds a request for deliverance in God's established covenant loyalty and measured compassion rather than the speaker's merit. A reader must accept that divine intervention is triggered by God's character, not human urgency.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Cross-references
- Psalms 109:21 But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
- Psalms 25:16 Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
- Psalms 63:3 Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
- Psalms 26:11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
- Psalms 69:13 But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- Psalms 106:45 And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- Psalms 51:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Psalms 86:15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Psalms 36:7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!