The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
- KJV The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- NKJV The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
- NASB ¶The Lord is your protector; The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
- NLT The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade.
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Quick answer
Yahweh is your keeper and your shade at your right hand. God Himself personally guards and protects His people.
Overview
The psalmist makes the truth intimate: 'Yahweh is your keeper.' Like protective 'shade' at one's 'right hand,' God shields His people from harm and overwhelming heat. This nearness and protection are realized for believers in Christ, in whom we are kept and shielded by God's presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Isa 25:4For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Exod 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Ps 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Isa 4:5–6Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- Ps 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
- Isa 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
- Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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