You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
- BSB Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
- NKJV You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.
- NASB You are not to be terrified of them, because the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
- NLT “No, do not be afraid of those nations, for the Lord your God is among you, and he is a great and awesome God.
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Quick answer
Israel must not be terrified, for the great and awesome God is among them. God's presence dispels fear of any enemy.
Overview
The ground of courage is God's personal presence in the midst of his people. Because he is great and awesome, no foe is too strong. This presence-among-his-people theme reaches its climax in Immanuel, God with us, in whom believers find fearless assurance.
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Cross-references · 21
- Josh 3:10Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
- Deut 10:17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.
- Neh 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Neh 4:14I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”
- Ps 46:5God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
- 1 Cor 14:25And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
- Deut 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;
- Num 14:42Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
- Num 23:21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
- 2 Chr 32:8An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- Num 14:14They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Num 16:3They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
- Num 14:9Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
- Num 9:20Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
- 1 Sam 4:8Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
- Zech 12:2–5“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
- Ps 46:7Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Zech 2:10–11Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
- Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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