The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- KJV The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- NKJV The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
- NASB “The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
- NLT The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him— my father’s God, and I will exalt him!
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Quick answer
The LORD Himself is Israel's strength, song, and salvation, the God they will praise and exalt.
Overview
The worshiper makes the deliverance personal: 'this is my God.' God is celebrated not merely for what He gives but as Himself the source of strength and salvation. This intimate confession of faith, echoed in Isaiah 12 and Psalm 118, anticipates the believer's joy in the God who saves.
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Cross-references · 40
- Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
- Ps 118:14The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.
- Ps 18:46The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—
- Ps 59:17To You, O my strength, I sing praises, for You, O God, are my fortress, my God of loving devotion.
- Isa 25:1O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
- Ps 18:1–2For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
- Ps 140:7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.
- Ps 145:1A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.
- Ps 99:9Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.
- Isa 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
- Ps 30:1A Psalm. A song for the dedication of the temple. Of David. I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- Phil 2:11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Exod 3:15–16God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
- Ps 99:5Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!
- Ps 118:28You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
- Rev 5:9–14And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- 2 Cor 5:19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- Ps 34:3Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- Exod 3:6Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- Rev 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Ps 27:1Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?
- Eph 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
- Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- Luke 1:77to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
- Hab 3:17–19Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Ps 22:3Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Gen 28:21–22so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
- Deut 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
- Exod 4:22Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
- Ps 22:10From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
- 2 Sam 22:47The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—
- John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
- Exod 14:13But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
- Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- Ps 109:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Ps 28:8The LORD is the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
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