You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
- KJV Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
- NKJV You shall keep them, O Lord, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
- NASB You, Lord, will keep them; You will protect him from this generation forever.
- NLT Therefore, Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation,
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Quick answer
Yahweh will keep and preserve His people from this corrupt generation forever. God guards the faithful amid a faithless world.
Overview
David trusts that the God whose words are pure will also protect His people permanently. Some take 'them' as God's words, others as the oppressed; faithful interpreters read it either way, and both are true to Scripture. The verse assures believers of God's keeping power even in a wicked age.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 1 Sam 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
- Ps 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- Ps 37:40The LORD helps and delivers them; He rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in Him.
- Ps 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
- 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Isa 27:3I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
- Deut 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
- Ps 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
- Ps 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- Ps 16:1A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.
- Matt 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
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