The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
- BSB The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- 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 28:6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
- Prov 2:8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
- Prov 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
- Ps 113:2Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
- Ezra 8:31Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
- Ps 115:18But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
- Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
- Jas 4:13–16Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
- 2 Sam 5:2Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
- Deut 28:19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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