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Psalm 138:8

The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

6For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
8The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
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Notice

“Don’t forsake” follows a confident promise, showing how trust in God’s lasting kindness can still speak with the urgency of someone who needs help.

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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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Philippians 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.Both express confidence that God will complete his work, with Philippians naming the day of Jesus Christ.
Psalm 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.Both join a personal appeal to God with confidence that he acts on behalf of the one praying.
1 Thessalonians 5:24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.Both ground confidence in God’s action in his character: enduring loving kindness in the psalm and faithfulness in Thessalonians.
Isaiah 26:12LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.Both credit the LORD with work done for his people, and Isaiah connects that work with peace.
Psalm 136:1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.Both declare that the LORD’s loving kindness endures forever, making the same truth grounds for petition and thanks.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.Both describe people as God’s handiwork, with Ephesians naming creation in Christ Jesus for good works.
Psalm 103:17But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,Both speak of the LORD’s loving kindness without an end; Psalm 103 names those who fear him.
Philippians 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Both concern God’s action in an unfinished life, though Paul speaks of Christ Jesus taking hold of him.
Jeremiah 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good and the good of their children after them.Both speak of God’s lasting care, though Jeremiah names a shared heart and way given for his people’s good.
1 Peter 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.Both connect dependence on God with his role as maker, and Peter applies that trust to people suffering while doing good.
Isaiah 64:8But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.Both describe people as the work of God’s hands; Isaiah develops that image through clay and a potter.
Psalm 71:17–18God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.Both speak of God’s work in a person’s life; Psalm 71 names teaching from youth and the declaration of wondrous works.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 138:8’s final sentence before bed tonight

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Encouragement

Trust does not make the closing plea unnecessary. You may ask God to keep caring for what he has made; his loving kindness endures forever.

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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).