The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
- KJV The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
- NKJV The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
- NASB The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time and forever.
- NLT The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.
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Quick answer
Yahweh will keep your going out and coming in, now and forevermore. God's care covers all of life, always.
Overview
The closing promise covers every 'going out' and 'coming in,' all of life's comings and goings, and extends 'forever more.' God's keeping is comprehensive and everlasting. This eternal protection is the believer's inheritance in Christ, who keeps His people to the very end and beyond.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Prov 2:8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
- Prov 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
- Ps 113:2Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forevermore.
- Ezra 8:31On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
- Ps 115:18But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!
- Ezra 8:21And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
- Jas 4:13–16Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
- 2 Sam 5:2Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
- Deut 28:19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
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