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Psalm 13:5

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

3Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
4lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
6I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me.
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Notice

“But” marks a turn from fear of falling to trust in God’s loving kindness, while the prayer gives no report of danger passing.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.Both connect joy with God’s salvation; Psalm 51 asks for that joy to be restored, while Psalm 13 expresses it.
Psalm 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.Both speak of trust in God and a heart that rejoices in his help.
Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”Both join trust in God with salvation, naming God as the one on whom confidence rests.
Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.Both connect God’s love with hope for saving mercy, though Jude names Jesus Christ and eternal life.
Habakkuk 3:18yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!Both express rejoicing in God’s salvation, with a turning word that marks joy against what came before.
Psalm 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.Both name God’s loving kindness as the ground of trust; Psalm 52 extends that trust forever.
Psalm 36:7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.Both treasure God’s loving kindness as a source of safety, expressed through trust in one and refuge in the other.
1 Samuel 2:1Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your …Both describe a heart rejoicing in God’s salvation, and both prayers speak of enemies in their setting.
Luke 2:20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.Both describe a response to God: the psalmist rejoices in his salvation, and the shepherds glorify and praise him.
Luke 1:47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,Both express inward joy directed toward God, naming his salvation or naming him as Savior.
2 Kings 18:5He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.Both speak of trust in the Lord, though the account of Judah’s king does not mention rejoicing or loving kindness.
Zechariah 10:7Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their children will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in the …Both describe the heart rejoicing in the Lord, though Zechariah speaks of Ephraim and their children.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. fear for the future. gratitude.

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Encouragement

The plea for help remains part of this prayer. Trust has a clear ground even here: God’s loving kindness, and the salvation in which the heart rejoices.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).