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Amplified


“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,
So that he looks at His face with joy;
For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].

New American Standard Bible

Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him,
That he may see His face with joy,
And He may restore His righteousness to man.

King James Version

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Holman Bible

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.
That man will see His face with a shout of joy,
and God will restore his righteousness to him.

International Standard Version

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

A Conservative Version

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

American Standard Version

He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.

Bible in Basic English

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

Darby Translation

He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.

Julia Smith Translation

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

King James 2000

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

Modern King James verseion

he shall pray to God, and He will be gracious to him; and he shall see His face with joy, for He will restore to man his righteousness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if he submit himself unto God, he is gracious, and showeth him his countenance joyfully, and rewardeth man for his righteousness.

NET Bible

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

New Heart English Bible

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

The Emphasized Bible

He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.

Webster

He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.

World English Bible

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

Youngs Literal Translation

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He shall pray
עתר 
`athar 
Usage: 20

אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

and he will be favourable
רצה 
Ratsah 
Usage: 56

unto him and he shall see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

with joy
תּרוּעה 
T@ruw`ah 
Usage: 36

for he will render
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

References

Context Readings

A Third Way God Warns People

25
“Let his flesh be restored and become fresher than in youth;
Let him return to the days of his youthful strength.
26 
“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,
So that he looks at His face with joy;
For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].
27
“He sings out to other men,
‘I have sinned and perverted that which was right,
And it was not proper for me!



Cross References

Psalm 50:15


Call on Me in the day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.”

Numbers 6:25-26


The Lord make His face shine upon you [with favor],
And be gracious to you [surrounding you with lovingkindness];

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord will repay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord handed you over to me today, but I refused to put out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.

2 Kings 20:2-5

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

But when he was in distress, he sought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also and how God heard him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

Job 22:26-27


Then you will have delight in the Almighty,
And you will lift up your face to God.

Job 34:11


“For God pays a man according to his work,
And He will make every man find [appropriate] compensation according to his way.

Job 34:28


So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 42:8-9

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him [and his prayer] so that I may not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.”

Psalm 4:6-7


Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

Psalm 6:1-9

O Lord, do not rebuke or punish me in Your anger,
Nor discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalm 16:11


You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 18:20


The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness (moral character, spiritual integrity);
According to the cleanness of my hands He has rewarded me.

Psalm 28:1-2

To you I call, O Lord,
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).

Psalm 28:6


Blessed be the Lord,
Because He has heard the voice of my supplication.

Psalm 30:5


For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may endure for a night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 30:7-11


By Your favor and grace, O Lord, you have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and I was horrified.

Psalm 41:8-11


“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

Psalm 62:12


Also to You, O Lord, belong lovingkindness and compassion,
For You compensate every man according to [the value of] his work.

Psalm 67:1

God be gracious and kind-hearted to us and bless us,
And make His face shine [with favor] on us— Selah.

Psalm 91:15


“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

Psalm 116:1-6

I love the Lord, because He hears [and continues to hear]
My voice and my supplications (my pleas, my cries, my specific needs).

Proverbs 24:12


If you [claim ignorance and] say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He not consider it who weighs and examines the hearts and their motives?
And does He not know it who guards your life and keeps your soul?
And will He not repay [you and] every man according to his works?

Isaiah 30:19

O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will most certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry for help; when He hears it, He will answer you.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.’

Jonah 2:2-7

and said,

“I called out of my trouble and distress to the Lord,
And He answered me;
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help,
And You heard my voice.

Matthew 10:41-42

He who receives and welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and he who receives a righteous (honorable) man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Acts 2:28


You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will fill me [infusing my soul] with joy with Your presence.’

Acts 9:11

And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul; for he is praying [there],

Hebrews 11:26

He considered the reproach of the Christ [that is, the rebuke he would suffer for his faithful obedience to God] to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt; for he looked ahead to the reward [promised by God].

Jude 1:24

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling or falling into sin, and to present you unblemished [blameless and faultless] in the presence of His glory with triumphant joy and unspeakable delight,

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