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Psalm 69:16

Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
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Notice

“Answer me” is a direct plea from distress, and its reason rests in God’s good loving kindness, even while the speaker waits for him to turn.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your …Both prayers appeal to God’s loving kindness and the multitude of his tender mercies as the grounds for asking his help.
Psalm 63:3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.God’s loving kindness grounds the plea for an answer in Psalm 69 and the promise of praise in Psalm 63.
Psalm 5:3LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.Both speakers bring requests to the LORD, looking for him to hear and respond.
Psalm 109:21But deal with me, GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;Both prayers say God’s loving kindness is good and make that goodness the reason for seeking his help.
Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.Both texts look to God’s compassion, expressed as tender mercies in the psalm and compassion toward sinners in Micah.
1 Chronicles 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”Both passages appeal to the greatness of God’s mercies amid distress.
Isaiah 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given to us, and the great goodness toward the …Both passages speak of God’s goodness and abundant mercy, grounding a plea in the psalm and praise in Isaiah.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. anxiety or panic. waiting.

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Name one distress and ask God to turn

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Encouragement

You do not have to soften your plea for help. The distress here remains urgent, and the prayer rests on this truth: God’s loving kindness is good.

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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).