For the Lord will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
Parallel translations
- WEB for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
- KJV For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- BSB for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- NKJV For the Lord will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
- NLT for the Lord is your security. He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap.
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Quick answer
The LORD himself is the believer's confidence and keeps their foot from the snare. Security rests not in self but in God.
Overview
This verse grounds the preceding call to fearlessness: confidence belongs to the LORD, who guards his people from the traps that would catch them. Wisdom's security is finally theological, rooted in God's faithful keeping. Christ is the good shepherd from whose hand none of his sheep can be snatched (John 10:28-29).
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Cross-references · 5
- Ps 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- Prov 14:26In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
- Ps 91:9–10Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
- Hab 3:17–18For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
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