The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
- BSB The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- NKJV The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.
- NASB The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.
- NLT The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life.
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Quick answer
Yahweh will keep you from all evil and will keep your soul. God's protection extends to the whole person, body and soul.
Overview
The psalmist broadens the promise: God guards from 'all evil' and preserves the very 'soul.' This is not a guarantee against all hardship but an assurance that nothing can ultimately harm those God keeps. In Christ, believers are kept so that no trial can separate them from God's love.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Ps 91:9–12Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
- Ps 41:2The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
- Prov 12:21There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
- Ps 145:20The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
- Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Job 5:19–27He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- Ps 34:22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
- Ps 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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