He sang: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
Parallel translations
- WEB and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
- KJV And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
- BSB He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
- NKJV And he said: “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
- NASB He said, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
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Quick answer
David declares Yahweh his rock, fortress, and deliverer. He grounds his security entirely in God's protecting strength.
Overview
Piling up images of stability and refuge, David confesses that his safety rests not in his armies but in the LORD himself. These titles express both God's unshakable steadfastness and his active rescue. For believers, Christ is the rock on which the church is built and the deliverer who saves to the uttermost.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 18:2–50Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Ps 31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
- Ps 71:3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
- Ps 144:2my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.
- Ps 91:2I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
- Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
- 1 Sam 2:2There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
- Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Ps 42:9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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