Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
Parallel translations
- WEB Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
- KJV Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
- NKJV Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me to Edom?
- NASB ¶Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
- NLT Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will bring me victory over Edom?
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Quick answer
David asks who will lead him into the fortified city and to Edom.
Overview
Facing a strong enemy stronghold, David acknowledges he cannot succeed by his own strength and looks for God's leading. The rhetorical questions express dependence on the LORD for victory. This humble recognition that success comes only through God points to the gospel truth that every victory belongs to the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 63:1–6Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- Ps 20:6–8Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
- Obad 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Jer 49:7–16Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
- Ps 60:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
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