This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Parallel translations
- KJV This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- BSB This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
- ESV This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
- NKJV This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
- NASB This is my comfort in my misery, That Your word has revived me.
- NLT Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles.
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- Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Ps 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
- Ps 28:7Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Heb 6:17–19In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Rom 5:3–5Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- Ezek 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
- Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- Heb 12:11–12All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
- 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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