Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
Parallel translations
- KJV O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
- BSB O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.
- NKJV O Israel, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.
- NASB ¶Israel, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.
- NLT O Israel, trust the Lord! He is your helper and your shield.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
- Prov 30:5“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Ps 118:2–4Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
- Ps 135:19–20House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!
- Deut 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
- Ps 33:20–21Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
- Ps 146:5–6Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- Ps 130:7Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
- Jer 17:17–18Don’t be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
- Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Exod 19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
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