Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
- BSB The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.
- NKJV The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
- NASB The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
- NLT The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Ps 27:1By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
- Exod 15:2–6Yah 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.
- Matt 1:21–23She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Isa 45:22–25“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
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