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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 40
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
- Ps 118:14The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
- Ps 18:46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
- Ps 59:17Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
- Isa 25:1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
- Ps 18:1–2I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
- Ps 140:7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
- Ps 145:1I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
- Ps 99:9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
- Isa 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
- Ps 30:1I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
- Phil 2:11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Exod 3:15–16And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
- Ps 99:5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
- Ps 118:28Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
- Rev 5:9–14And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
- 2 Cor 5:19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
- Ps 34:3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
- Exod 40:34Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- Exod 3:6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
- Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Ps 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Eph 2:22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
- Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
- Luke 1:77To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
- Hab 3:17–19Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
- Ps 22:3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
- Gen 28:21–22So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
- Deut 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- Exod 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
- Ps 22:10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
- 2 Sam 22:47The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
- John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
- Exod 14:13And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
- Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
- Ps 109:1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
- Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Ps 28:8The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
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