Psalms 17:7

7 Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.

Psalms 17:7 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
English Standard Version (ESV)
7 Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.
New Living Translation (NLT)
7 Show me your unfailing love in wonderful ways. By your mighty power you rescue those who seek refuge from their enemies.
The Message Bible (MSG)
7 Paint grace-graffiti on the fences; take in your frightened children who Are running from the neighborhood bullies straight to you.
American Standard Version (ASV)
7 Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them that take refuge [in thee] From those that rise up [against them].
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
7 Reveal your miraculous deeds of mercy, O Savior of those who find refuge by your side from those who attack them.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
7 Display the wonders of Your faithful love, Savior of all who seek refuge from those who rebel against Your right hand.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
7 Show the wonder of your great love. By using your powerful right hand, you save those who go to you for safety from their enemies.

Psalms 17:7 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 17:7

Show thy marvellous loving kindness
Such is the lovingkindness of God to his people in Christ; which is sovereign, free, special, distinguishing, everlasting, and unchangeable; it is better than life, and passes knowledge; and which is set upon men and not angels, some and not all, and these many of them the worst and vilest of men, and all of them by nature children of wrath as others; and which has appeared in choosing them in Christ, putting them into his hand, and making a covenant with him for them; in sending him into the world to suffer and die for them; in regenerating, adopting, justifying, pardoning, and saving them with an everlasting salvation; all which is marvellous in their eyes, and will be the wonder of men and angels to all eternity: this sometimes is hidden from the objects of it, as it might be from the psalmist, and therefore he desires a manifestation of it to him; or else his sense is, that God would show to others in what a marvellous manner he loved him, by the help, deliverance, and salvation he would give him. Such a petition will agree with Christ; see ( Psalms 40:10 Psalms 40:11 ) . Some render the words F2, "separate thy lovingkindness", or cause it to pass "from them that rise up on" or "against thy right hand"; but these were never the objects of it; and there is no separation of them from it, nor of that from them who are interested in it, ( Romans 8:38 Romans 8:39 ) ; much better may it be rendered, "separate" or "distinguish thy lovingkindness" F3; that is, let it appear that I have special interest in thy lovingkindness, distinct from others; distinguish me by thy lovingkindness, remember me with that which thou bearest to a peculiar people, ( Psalms 106:4 ) ;

O thou that savest by thy right hand;
either by his power, or by the man of his right hand, his own son;

them which put their trust [in thee];
not in men, not in an arm of flesh, not in themselves, in their own power, wisdom, riches, and righteousness; but in the Lord their God, who is the Saviour of all men, but especially of them that believe, ( 1 Timothy 4:10 ) ; for these he saves both in a temporal and in a spiritual manner;

from those that rise up [against them];
from all their spiritual enemies, sin and Satan; and from all outward ones, from the men of the world, oppressors and violent persecutors, who are afterwards described: the phrase, "by thy right hand", is by some, as Aben Ezra, connected with the word trust, and rendered, "them which trust in thy right hand" F4; either in the grace, mercy, and favour of God, dispensed by his right hand; or in his strength, and the mighty power of his arm; and by others it is joined to the last clause, and so it stands in the original text, and rendered, "from those that rise up against thy right hand" F5; and so the words describe such persons who in a bold and presumptuous manner set themselves against God, and strengthen themselves against the Almighty; who resist his counsel and will, oppose themselves to the Lord and his Anointed, the man of his right hand, made strong for himself; and to his saints, who are as dear to him as his right hand, and who are preserved by him in the hollow of his hand.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 Kimchi & Ben Melech.
F3 (hlph) "separa", Junius & Tremellius; "segrega", Montanus; so some in Vatablus; see Ainsworth.
F4 (Knymyb-Myowx) "eos qui fidunt in dextera tua", so some in Vatablus, Castalio, Ainsworth; "recipentes se ad dexteram suam", Junius & Tremellius.
F5 (Knymyb Mymmwqtmm) "ob insurgentes in dexteram tuam", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius; so Michaelis, Gejerus, Musculus.

Psalms 17:7 In-Context

5 My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.
6 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
7 Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings
9 from the wicked who are out to destroy me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

Cross References 3

  • 1. Psalms 31:21; Psalms 69:13; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 107:43; Psalms 117:2
  • 2. S Psalms 10:12; Psalms 20:6
  • 3. Psalms 2:12
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