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Psalm 40:11

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
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The loving kindness proclaimed before the assembly becomes a plea for preservation, showing how speaking of God’s faithfulness can coexist with urgent need.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.Both passages name God’s loving kindness and truth as help in danger, with one pleading for preservation and the other expecting rescue.
Psalm 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.Both passages look to God’s loving kindness across time, one asking for preservation and the other expressing confidence in lifelong care.
Psalm 25:10All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.Loving kindness and truth belong to the LORD in both passages, as grounds for preservation and marks of his paths.
Psalm 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.Both prayers ask for God’s truth to act on the speaker’s behalf, preserving in Psalm 40 and leading in Psalm 43.
Proverbs 20:28Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.Both texts link preservation with love and faithfulness, though Proverbs speaks of a king and his throne.
Hebrews 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been …Both passages contain pleas to God for help in distress, though Hebrews describes prayers with strong crying and tears.
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Feeling distant from God. guilt and confession. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

Even with evils surrounding him and his own iniquities overtaking him, the psalmist asks for tender mercies. His plea rests on God’s loving kindness and truth.

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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).